Connective tissue "proper" is used to describe the majority connective tissues that do not physically support another structure. Connective tissue proper is further subdivided into fluid connective tissues (blood and sometimes lymph), loose connective tissues, and dense connective tissues. In loose connective tissues, there are few fiber producing cells (fibroblasts) and wide framework of protein fibers with space for ground substance (water, ions, proteins, and polysaccharides) between them. Adipose, areolar, reticular, and mesenchyme connective tissues are all considered loose connective tissues. Dense connective tissue is made up of a dense framework of collagen fibers though some fibroblasts can be seen in them. Dense connective tissues are further broken into dense regular and dense irregular connective tissues.
On this page are links to histology your lab book. On each page is the picture found in your lab book
followed by a serries unlabeled pictures taken by students in the between the spring of 2018 and the spring of 2020.
Be sure to look at all the different views on each page and then pick one to draw and label.