Connective tissue capsule

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In anatomy, a connective tissue capsule ( Latin : anat. Capsula fibrosa ) is the covering of an organ , the coarse shell of which consists of collagenous connective tissue . Such capsules serve the mechanical stability as well as the delimitation of the organs and occur, for example, around the kidney , adrenal gland , spleen , the lymph nodes , thyroid gland , pituitary gland , spinal ganglia , Meissner's bodies , palatine tonsil , etc. In the gonads ( testes and ovaries ) and the erectile tissue of the penis, the connective tissue capsule is called tunica albuginea because of the particularly dense fiber arrangement and the resulting white color . In the liver , connective tissue surrounds the blood vessels and bile ducts, known as the capsula fibrosa perivascularis .

In many organs, branches extend from the connective tissue capsules into the interior of the organs, which subdivide the actual functional organ tissue, the parenchyma , in the form of septa (dividing / septum, singular: septum ) .

Such capsules of connective tissue also form around collections of pus ( abscesses ), around foreign bodies and some tumors after a while . Here they serve to separate healthy tissue.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kühnel: Pocket Atlas of Histology. 13th edition. Georg Thieme, 2014, ISBN 978-3-13-151533-9 , p. 258.
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  10. ↑ Wolfgang Dauber: Feneis' picture lexicon of anatomy . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-13-330109-8 , p. 158.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Achim Dieter Gruber: General pathology for veterinary medicine . Georg Thieme, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8304-1151-2 , p. 210.