Question

What are tendons and ligaments?

Answer 1

Connective tissue:

1. Connective tissues connect and support other body tissues and organs.
2. There are three forms of connective tissue: loose connective tissue, specialized connective tissue, and dense connective tissue.
3. The dense connective tissues are densely packed with fibers and fibroblasts.
4. Orientation of fibers shows a regular pattern in dense regular connective tissue.

Tendons:

1. It is a dense regular connective tissue.
2. Tendons attach skeletal muscles to bones.

Ligaments:

1. It is a dense regular connective tissue.
2. Ligaments attach one bone to another bone.