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From a physiological point of view, any solid component of the organism from bones to cells may be considered as a living tissue. Soft tissues may be distinguished from other tissues like bones for their flexibility, their soft mechanical properties. This concerns the connective tissues, the muscles, the organs and the brain (Lee 82). A more accurate distinction may be made in considering their respective functions in the organism. Bones are dedicated to building the rigid skeletal structure of the body, cartilage to lubricating the articulations, skeletal muscles to producing strength and to moving the skeleton through the tendons, and organs and brain play physiological functions to maintain and control the organism. In this report, we are mainly concerned with the mechanical properties of the soft tissues involved in body motion and deformation, i.e., skeletal muscles, tendons, ligaments, and skin. Their respective mechanical behavior may be expected to be related to their specific composition, structure, location, and function in the organism. However, for dynamic modeling, they may be satisfactorily approximated by macroscopic properties, as described in the next chapter.
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Maurel, W., Thalmann, D., Wu, Y., Thalmann, N.M. (1998). Soft Tissue Physiology. In: Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue Simulation. Esprit Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03589-4_1
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