In addition to its subcutaneous presence, this type of fascia surrounds organs and glands, neurovascular bundles, and is found at many other locations where it fills otherwise unoccupied space.
In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia.
Cancer cells are also found floating in the peritoneal fluid surrounding abdominal organs or in washings of the peritoneum.
Soft Tissue Sarcomas (Reviewed: 05/24/2007) - A fact sheet about soft tissue sarcomas, cancers that develop in tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and organs of the body.
Sarcomas are malignant tumors that arise from the connective tissue, which connects, supports and surrounds various structures and organs in the body.
For the most part these glandular tissues are lost in the adult with exception of the fat body, which is retained as a sheath of lipid tissue surrounding the brain and organs of the abdomen.
Diseased fat tissue surrounding various organs can cause illness, such as fat surrounding the heart, muscle, vessels, eyes, and bone.
An omentum (Latin for "apron") is a layer of peritoneum that surrounds abdominal organs.
In anatomy, the term soft tissue refers to tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and organs of the body, not being bone.
These stabilizers include the transversus abdominus, which is like a corset that surrounds your spine and organs, diaphragm, and other deep muscles near the spine.