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41 Cards in this Set
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What kind of tissue is found in alveoli, glomeruli, endothelium, and serosa?
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Simple Squamous Epithelia
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What kind of tissue is found in the liver, thyroid, mammary, salivary, and other glands?
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Simple Cuboidal Epithelia
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What kind of tissue is found lining the GI tract, uterus, kidney, and uterine tubes?
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Simple Columnar Epithelia
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What type of tissue is found in the respiratory system?
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Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelia
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What type of tissue is found in the skin cheek and cervix?
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Stratified squamous epithelia
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What type of tissue is the most rare?
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Stratified Columnar Epithelia
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What type of tissue is found in the urinary tract, kidney, ureterm and bladder?
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Transitional Epithelia
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Which type of gland has no duct?
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Endocrine glands
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What is a stroma?
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A capsule that divides gland into lobes and lobules
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What are parenchyma?
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Cells that synthesize the secretions of the gland
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A goblet cell is an example of a cell in what type of gland?
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Exocrine
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What does a cytogenic gland release?
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Sperm and egg cells
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What gland produces cells that must sacrafice themselves to deliver their product?
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Holocrine glands
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How does a merocrine gland release its product?
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By exocytosis
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tears, salivary, gastric glands, pancreas, are all types of what secretion?
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Merocrine
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Mammary and armpit sweat glands are types of what secretion?
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Apocrine
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What type of cell produces fibers and ground substane?
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Fibroblasts
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What types of fibers are tough, and resist stretching but are still flexible?
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Collagen
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What types of fibers are thin with glycoproteins and for the framework for the spleen and lymph nodes?
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Reticular
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What fibers are made of elastin, and stretch and recoil like a rubberband?
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Elastic Fibers
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What are three types of ground substance found in connective tissue?
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glycosaminoglycans, proteoglycans, and glycoproteins
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What type of connective tissue underlies all epithelia that forms the passage for nerves and blood vessels?
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Areolar
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What type of connective tissue is a loosenetwork of fibers and cells that forms the framework for lymphatic organs?
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Reticular
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What type of connective tissue is non vascular and is characteristic of tendons and ligaments?
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue
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What type of tissue has collagen fibers running in random directions?
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Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
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What produces the matrix of cartilage?
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Chondroblasts (Chondrocytes when enclosed within the matrix)
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What are the three types of cartilage?
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Hyaline, Fibrocartilage, and Elastic Cartilage
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What type of cartilage supports the airway and allows for easy joint movement?
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Hyaline
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What type of cartilage makes up the ear?
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Elastic Cartilage
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What type of cartilage resists compression and absorbs shock?
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Fibrocartilage
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What does the synovial membrane line?
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The Joints
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What disease is a hereditary defect in elastin fibers? (which is often seen by tall stature, long limbs, and spinal curvature)
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Marfan syndrome
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What is a hereditary defect in collagen synthesis? (Old looking appearance, stretchy skin, loose joints)
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
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What is hypertrophy?
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The enlargement of preexisting cells
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What is Neoplasia?
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the growth of a tumor through growth of abnormal tissue
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What is hyperplasia?
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Tissue growth through cell multipication
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What is gangrene caused by?
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Insufficient blood supply
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What is decubitus?
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A bed sore or pressure sore
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What do peroxisomes break down?
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Fatty Acids, and amino acids
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What are hormone-like chemical signals between cells?
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Eicosanoids
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What is a classic example of a conjugated protein?
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Hemogobin
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