Blood as a Connective Tissue

• Blood as a Fluid Tissue

  blood is the only fluid tissue in the body

  = a thick, homogenous liquid w both cellular + liquid components
• Blood as a Specialised Connective Tissue

  blood is a specialised connective tissue in which living blood cells r suspended in a non-living fluid matrix = plasma

  blood lacks the collagen + elastic fibres typical of other connective tissues, but dissolved fibrous proteins become visible as fibrin strands during blood clotting