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What is this? |
Fibrocartilage |
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Where is fibrocartilage found? |
vertebral discs and knee joints |
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What does fibrocartilage do? |
It acts as a shock absorber |
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What is this? |
Reticular Connective Tissue |
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Where is Recticular Connective Tissue? |
lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow, and liver |
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What does Recticular Connective Tissue do? |
It provides framework for soft organs |
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What is this? |
Simple Non-ciliated Columnar Epithelium |
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Where is Simple Non-ciliated Columnar Epithelium located? |
Found in lining of digestive tract |
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What does Simple Non-ciliated Columnar Epithelium do? |
It provides protection, absorption, and secretion |
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What is this? |
Adipose Connect Tissue |
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Where is Adipose Connective Tissue located? |
Found around the heart, kidneys, bone marrow, behind eyeball, under skin |
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What does Adipose Connective Tissue do? |
It provides insulation, energy reserve, support, and protection |
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What is this? |
Skeletal Muscle |
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Where is the Skeletal Muscle located? |
Located attached to the bone |
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What does the Skeletal Muscle do? |
Provides voluntary movement |
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What is this? |
Blood |
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Where is Blood located? |
In the blood vessels |
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What does Blood do? |
Provides transportation of nutrients and wastes to the body |
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What is this? |
Elastic Connective Tissue |
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Where is Elastic Connective Tissue located? |
Found in walls of arteries, bronchial tubes, lungs, vertebral ligaments, suspensory ligaments of penis, and vocal cords |
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What does Elastic Connective Tissue do? |
Provides elasticity |
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What is this? |
Stratified Squamous Keratinized Epithelium |
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Where is Stratified Squamous Keratinized Epithelium located? |
Found in the top layer of skin |
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What does Stratified Squamous Keratinized Epithelium do? |
Provides waterproofing protection |
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What is this? |
Simple Squamous Epithelium |
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Where is Simple Squamous Epithelium located? |
Found in capillary walls, filtration membranes in kidneys, walls of alveoli, heart lymph, blood vessels and body cavity lining |
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What does Simple Squamous Epithelium do? |
Provides surface for diffusion or filtration |
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What is this? |
Smooth Muscle |
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Where is Smooth Muscle located? |
found in iris of eye, digestive organs, walls of blood vessels |
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What does Smooth Muscle do? |
Provides involuntary movement |
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What is this? |
Pseudostratified Ciliatied Columnar Epithelium |
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Where is Pseudostratified Ciliatied Columnar Epithelium located? |
Found in respiratory tract, ducts of large glands, part of urethra, lining of trachea |
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What does Pseudostratified Ciliatied Columnar Epithelium do? |
Provides secretion and propulsion of mucus |
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What is this? |
Stratified Squamous Non-keratinized Epithelium |
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Where is Stratified Squamous Non-keratinized Epithelium located? |
Found on tongue, lining esophagus, mouth, anus, and vagina |
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What does Stratified Squamous Non-keratinized Epithelium do? |
Provides protection without waterproofing |
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What is this? |
Loose Aerolar Connective Tissue |
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Where is Loose Aerolar Connective Tissue located? |
Found separating muscles, wraps small vessels, surrounds glands, attaches skin to underlying tissue, found in all mucous membranes |
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What does Loose Aerolar Connective Tissue do? |
Provides a reservoir for water and salts |
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What is this? |
Elastic Cartilage |
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Where is Elastic Cartilage located? |
Found in Epiglottis, pinna of ear, eustachian tubes |
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What does Elastic Cartilage do? |
Provides strength and shape |
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What is this? |
Cardiac Muscle |
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Where is Cardiac Muscle located? |
Found in heart |
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What does Cardiac Muscle do? |
Provides pumping movement of heart |
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What is this? |
Bone |
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What does the Bone do? |
Provides strength and reservoir for minerals |
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What is this? |
Dense Regular Connective Tissue |
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Where is Dense Regular Connective Tissue located? |
Found in tendons, ligaments, membrane of hear, kidneys, testes, fasicles around muscle |
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What does Dense Regular Connective Tissue do? |
Provides strength |
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What is this? |
Neural Tissue |
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Where is Neural Tissue located? |
brain, spinal cord, and nerves |
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What does Neural Tissue do? |
Conducts electricity |
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What is this? |
Hyaline Cartilage |
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Where is Hyaline Cartilage located? |
joints of long bones, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchial tubes, nose, embryonic skeleton |
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What does Hyaline Cartilage do? |
Provides flexible support |
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What is this? |
Simple Cuboidal Epithelium |
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Where is Simple Cuboidal Epithelium located? |
ovaries, tubules of kidneys, ducts of salivary glands, liver, and pancreas |
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What does Simple Cuboidal Epithelium do? |
Provides secretion and absorption |
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What is this? |
Transitional Epithelium |
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Where is Transitional Epithelium located? |
Found in walls of ureter and urinary bladder |
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What does Transitional Epithelium do? |
Provides protection from distention |
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What are the four main types of tissue? |
Connective, muscle, neural, epithelial |
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Study of tissue is called... |
Histology |
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A collection of specialized cells and cell products that perform a specific function is called... |
Tissue |
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Simple means |
one layer |
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stratified means |
many layers |
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squamous means |
flat |
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cuboidal mean |
cube-like |
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columnar means |
tall |
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How many layers of cells would be found in areas where little mechanical protection is needed and absorption/diffusion is very high? |
one layer |
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How many layers of cells would be found in areas where mechanical and chemical stress would be very high? |
many layers |
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What are the 3 types of Loose tissues? |
Adipose, Aerolar, Reticular |
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What are the 3 types of Dense tissues? |
elastic, dense regular, dense irregular |
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What are the 3 types of Cartilage Connective Tissues? |
Hyaline, Fibrocartilage, Elastic |
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What is the most common type of cartilage? |
Hyaline |
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The __________ of connective tissue is made up of fibers and a ground substance. |
Matrix |
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What is the least common type of connective tissue? |
Aerolar |
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Damaged cartilage heals slowly because it is.... |
avascular |
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What are 3 basic components of all connective tissue types? |
1. Specialized cells 2. Solid extracellular protein fibers 3. Fluid extracellular ground substance |
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Where is mucous located? |
digestive, respiratory, reproductive tract |
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What are 3 serous membranes? |
1. Pleura- covers lungs 2. Peritoneum- covers abdominal organs 3. Pericardium- covers heart |
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What is Synovial? |
line moving, articulating joint cavities, producing synovial acid, protect ends of bones, lack epithelium |
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What is Cutaneous? |
skin, covers the surface of the body |
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Which above communicates with the exterior of the body? |
Mucous |
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Loose areolar tissue of mucous membrane is called? |
Lamina propria |
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Endocrine glands |
secretion are discharged directly into the interstitial fluid and blood |
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Exocrine glands? |
Produce secretion onto epithelial surfaces through ducts |
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Merocrine |
exocytosis- sweat glands |
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Apocrine |
shedding cytoplasm- mammary glands |
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Holocrine |
cell bursting, gland cells replaced by stem cells- sebaceous glands |
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What are 3 types of muscles? |
Skeletal, smooth, cardiac |
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What muscles are involuntary? |
Smooth |
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Which muscle type have inter calculating discs? |
Cardiac |
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Which muscle type is non striated? |
Smooth |
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What are two major types of cells in Neural tissue? |
Neurons and Neuroglia |
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What are the supporting cells in the Neural tissue? |
Neuroglia |
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What happens to tissues in general as one ages? |
repair declines, cancer rate increases |
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Osteoporosis is most common in... |
women |
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Restoring Homeostatis after tissue injury involves what two processes? |
Inflammation and regeneration |
