Connective Tissues - Catagories

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Loose connective tissue - list

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Areolar tissue
Adipose tissue
Reticular tissie

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Loose - areolar tissue

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Forms thin membranes between organs and binds them.

Beneath most epithelium and between muscles.

Consist of fibroblast, elastic and collagenous fibers - far apart.

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Loose - adipose tissue

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Stores fat.

Insulates

Found beneath skin, in certain abdominal membranes, and around kidneys, heart and cushions various joints.

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Loose - reticular tissue

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Thin, collagenous fibers.

Provide framework for liver and spleen

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Dense convective tissue

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Largely composed of strong, collagenous fibers.

Found in tendons, ligaments, white portions of eye and deeper layer of skin.

Binds muscles to bone and bone to bone.

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Cartilage

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Rigid connective tissue

Provides framework.

Extracellular matrix is abundant and largely composed of collagenous fibers.

Lacks blood supply - slow healing.

Chordrocytes

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Chordrocytes

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Cartilage cells that occupy small chambers called lacunae

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Perichondrium

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a covering of s cartilaginous structure

Contains blood vessels and provide nutrients to cartilage cells.

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Hyaline cartilage

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Fine collagenous fibers.

Looks like white glass

Found in bones in ends of bones in many joints, soft part of the nose and in the supporting rings of the respiratory system.

Important in growth of bones.

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Elastic cartilage

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Dense network of elastic fibers.

Provide fexible framework for the ears and part of the larynx.

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Fribrocartilage

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Very though tissue, has many collagenous fibers

Shock absorber

Ex. intervertebral discs
Ex. interverte

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Bone

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The extracellular matrix of bone consists mineral salts such as calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate.

Cells are usually organized in circles around central canals.

Support and protects body structures.

Blood producing.

Active tissue that heals rapidly.

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Blood

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Blood transport substances and helps maintain a stable internal environment.

Composed of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets suspended in plasma.

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Epithelial membranes

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Thin, covering surfaces and lining cavities.

Serous, mucous and cutaneous.

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Serous membrane

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Composed of a simple squamous epithelial layer and a thin layer of loose connective tissue.

Lines internal body cavities.

Secrete serous fluid.

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Mucous membrane

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Lines cavities and tubes that open to the outside: Oral and nasal cavities, tubes of the digestive system, respiratory, urinary and reproductive.

Secrete mucus.

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Cutaneous membrane

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The skin

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Synovial membranes

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Composed entirely of connective tissue.

Lines joints.