An X-ray produces a picture of dense tissues inside the body.

This is because bones absorb the radiation more than the less dense soft tissue.

Doctors get clearer images of dense tissue and can make more precise diagnoses.

Mammograms can miss breast tumors, especially in younger women, who tend to have dense tissue.

Dense fibrous tissue may form over the pleural surface for a variety of reasons.

A ligament is a small band of dense, white, fibrous elastic tissue.

The organ is surrounded by a dense, perineurium-like connective tissue.

In both cases, the X-rays are absorbed by dense tissue, such as bones, so few rays get through to darken the film.

But it cannot be watched lightly, without the dense connective tissue that holds Kafka's novel together.

Dense regular connective tissue provides connection between different tissues.