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53 Cards in this Set
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What is Connective Tissue derived from? |
Somites |
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Connective Tissue is involved in what? |
Support Attachment packing Insulation Storage Transport Repair Defense |
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What are the characteristics of Connective Tissue compared to Epithelium |
Fewer Cells Farther Apart More Matrix in between the cells |
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Most Connective tissue is what? |
Renewable because its cells are capable of mitosis and most of its cells can produce matrix |
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Is connective tissue avascular or vascular |
Vascularized |
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Which one of the connective tissue is not Vascularized? |
Cartilage |
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What is the matrix composed of |
Intracellular Substance and Connective Tissue fibers |
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What is the most common cell in the Connective tissue |
Fibroblast (Protein fibers) |
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Fibroblast are considered what |
Fixed cells they don't leave the tissue |
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COLLAGEN FIBERS |
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Collagen fibers are what? |
The main connective tissue fiber type found in the body |
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All connective tissue contains some collagen fibers except what? |
Blood |
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All Collagen fibers are composed of what? |
Fibrils |
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Fibrils are composed of |
Microfibrils |
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There are how many types of Collagen? |
4 |
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How much of Collagen in the body is composed of types 1-4? |
90% |
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Which type is the most common? |
Type 1 |
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Type 1 Collagen is in what? |
Skin dermis, lamina propria, bone, teeth, tendons, and virtually all connective tissue |
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Which cells are responsible for making Type 1 |
Fibroblast , Osteoblast, Odontoblast |
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Fibroblast and Osteoblast form what? |
Bone |
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Odonotoblast forms what |
Dentin |
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Type 2 is in what? |
Hyaline and Elastic cartilage |
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Type 3 is in what? |
Granulation Tissue |
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Type 4 is in what |
Basal Lamina |
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What are the other two types of Fibers? |
Elastic Fiber Reticular Fiber |
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What is Elastic Fiber? |
Can stretch and then return to its original shape after contraction or extension |
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The Elastic Fiber is found where |
Soft palate |
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The Reticular Fiber is found where? |
Lymph Nodes and Spleen |
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One method of classifying connective tissue is by what? |
Texture |
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What are the different textures connective tissue can have? |
Soft Firm Rigid or Fluid in nature ` |
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Soft Connective tissue are found where? |
In deeper layers of the skin and oral mucosa such as connective Tissue Proper |
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Firm Connective tissue consist of what? |
Cartilage |
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Rigid Connective tissue consist of what? |
Bone |
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Fluid connective tissue consist of what? |
Blood |
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Soft Connective tissue can be described as? |
Loose, Dense, or specialized |
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Both loose and dense types of connective tissue are found together in what? |
two layers of connective tissue proper |
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Connective tissue proper is located where? |
deep to the epithelium and basement membrane in the deeper layer of the skin and oral mucosa |
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The connective tissue proper in the skin is what? |
Dermis |
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Even deeper to the dermis is what? |
Hypodermis |
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In the oral mucosa the connective tissue proper is considered what? |
Lamina properia |
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Deeper connective tissue in the oral mucosa is called what? |
Submucosa |
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DENSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE |
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Dense connective tissue is located where? |
Deep to the loose connective tissue |
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where is dense connective tissue found? |
deepest layers of the dermis and lamina propria |
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Dense connective tissue have all the same components as loose connective tissue besides what? |
It's tightly packed, with a regular arrangement |
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Dense Connective Tissues consist mainly of what? |
Protein fibers |
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what gives the dense connective tissue strength |
Protein fibers |
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The Dense connective tissue is also known as the what layer? |
Dense Layer |
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LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE |
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loose connective tissue is what layer? |
Superficial layer of the dermis and lamina propria |
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The layer of loose connective tissue is also considered what? |
papillary layer |
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The papillary layer has what in it? |
Connective tissue papillae |
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The loose connective tissue does what for the deeper structures of the body? |
Protective padding |
