Usually means: Supports, binds, and protects organs.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word connective tissue:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. connective tissue: Merriam-Webster
  2. connective tissue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. connective tissue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. connective tissue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. connective tissue: Vocabulary.com
  6. connective-tissue: Wordnik
  7. connective tissue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Connective tissue, Connective tissue: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. connective tissue: Wiktionary
  10. connective tissue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. connective tissue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. connective tissue: Dictionary.com
  13. Connective tissue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. connective tissue: Rhymezone
  15. connective tissue: FreeDictionary.org
  16. connective tissue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. connective tissue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. connective tissue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Connective-tissue, connective tissue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. connective tissue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Connective tissue, Tissue, connective: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. connective tissue: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Glossary
  7. Connective tissue: Merck Manuals
  8. connective tissue: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  9. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  12. Connective tissue: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  13. Connective Tissue: Scleroderma
  14. connective tissue: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. Connective-tissue, connective tissue: Medical dictionary
  16. Connective tissue, Tissue, connective: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  18. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

(Note: See connective_tissues as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (connective tissue)

noun:  (anatomy) A type of tissue found in animals whose main function is binding other tissue systems (such as muscle to skin) or organs and consists of the following three elements: cells, fibers and a ground substance (or extracellular matrix).

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