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40 Cards in this Set
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Where is aerolar connective tissue located?
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Under skin, surrounding visceral organs and supporting vessels
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What is the dermis of skin made up of?
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dense irregular connective tissue
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What is the tissue that makes up tendons and ligaments?
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dense irregular connective tissue
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What is between muscles and bones?
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tendons
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What is between bones and bones?
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ligaments
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What are the flat sheets of tissue between muscles and bones?
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aponeuroses
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What looks like aponeuroses but bundles muscles together in groups?
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fascia
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What are the walls of ateries, trachea, and elastic ligaments of the vertebrae?
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elastic connective tissue
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What is used for fat storage, insulation, and padding?
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adipose
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What is the space in the matrix where the cell lives?
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lacunae
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What type of cartilage contains a celar matrix, but does not contain collagen and is located in embryonic bones?
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hyaline
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What cartilage is located in the pinna, epiglottis, and eustachian tubes?
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elastic cartilage
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What cartilage looks like dense regular tissue, but is spongy?
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fibrocartilage
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What has a matrix that is liquid and plasma and contains erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets?
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blood
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What type of muscle tissue moves bones?
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skeletal
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What type of muscle is the bulk of the heart?
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cardiac
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What type of muscle controlsthe size of blood vessels?
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smooth
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What is a diseas in which too much constriction occurs in the repiratory passage?
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asthma
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What type of tissue is located in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
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nervous tissue
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What is the conductive cell in the nervous system that communicates with other cells?
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neuron
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What part of a neuron conducts away from the perikaryon?
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axon
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What part of a neuron is the receptive part?
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dendrite
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What is the blood brain barrier?
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astrocytes
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What wraps around axons?
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oligiodendrocyte
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What is a type of cell that is 10X more numerous thatn neurons?
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neuroglia
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What type of cell wraps itself around a neuron forming a myelin sheath?
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schwann
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The maintaining of constant conditions is what?
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homeostasis
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What is relased when blood sugar is too low?
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glucagon
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What is released when insulin is too high?
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insulin
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What are the 4 things that are related to homeostasis?
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oxygen and CO2 levels, serum glucose levels, body temperature, and body water content
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What is relaeased when body water content is too low?
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ADH
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What does ADH stand for?
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anti-diarretic hormone
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What is the mechanism in which the stimulus that activates the mechanism is reversed and placed back into homeostasis?
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negative feedback
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What is the mechanism in which the stimulus that activates the mechanism is increased and becomes even more extreme?
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positive feedback
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What is an example of positive feedback?
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fever
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What two hormones are released when a mother's breast is stiumlated by a suckling neonate?
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prolactin and oxytocin
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What hormone stimulates milk production?
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prolactin
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What hormone stimulates milk let-down?
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oxytocin
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What do platelets relases which causes more clotting to occur?
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platelet thrombolastin
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What is another name for birth?
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parturition
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