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22 Cards in this Set
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Simple epithelial tissue |
One layer of cells |
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Stratified epithelial Tissue |
Multiple layers of cells |
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Pseudostratified epithelial tissue |
A single layer of columnar cells |
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Squamous cell |
Flatten scale-like cell |
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Cuboidal cell |
Looks like one layer of cubes |
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Columnar cell |
Tall rectangular cells (mostly mucus) |
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Basement membrane |
Reinforces and protects epithelial cells |
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Ground substances |
Unstructured materials that fills in space between cells |
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Collagen fiber |
Forms ligaments (bone to bone) and tendons (muscle to bone) |
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Elastic fiber |
With a few fibroblasts, found in tissue that expands |
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Reticular fiber |
Supporting framework of liver and others found in the basement membrane |
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Loose connective tissue |
Tissue that appears to have many open areas |
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Dense connective tissue |
Contains thickly packed fibers |
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Cartilage |
Tough but resistant tissue |
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Bone |
(Ossecous tissue) series of concentric rings composed of several different types of connective tissue |
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Blood |
Only connective tissue that doesn't connect anything physically |
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Striated |
Striped in appearance |
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Skeletal muscle tissue |
Myocytes are long, tubular and striated in appearance |
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Cardiac muscle tissue |
Myocytes are located in the heart, are short, fat, striated, and tend to be branching |
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Smooth muscle tissue |
Myocytes are flat with one nucleus in the center of spindle-shaped cell |
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Neuron |
Responsible for sending and recieving messages in the nervous system |
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Neuroglial cell |
The smaller and more numerous cell around the neurons |
