the.com/connective tissue
The body's duct tape — unglamorous, everywhere, holding your actual organs in place.
means The biological material (cartilage, fat, tendons, ligaments, and the matrix between cells) that supports, connects, and separates other tissues and organs in the body.
from A straightforward descriptive compound from anatomy — 'connective' from Latin 'connectere' (to bind together, from com- 'together' + nectere 'to tie, bind') plus 'tissue,' itself from French 'tissu' (woven), from Latin 'texere' (to weave). The term rose with modern histology, once scientists began classifying body matter by function under the microscope — naming this type for the unglamorous job it does: literally weaving the rest of you together.
- made mostly of
- collagen, the protein you pay to inject later
- includes
- bone, blood, fat, and cartilage, oddly
- origin
- develops from mesoderm, the embryo's middle layer
- metaphor use
- means the thing quietly linking unrelated ideas