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The study that shows that form, arrangement, and composition of cells in different tissues account for their properties?
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Histology
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Four main groups of tissue?
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Epithelial
Connective Muscle Nervous |
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Tissue that covers surfaces, lines cavities, and forms glands?
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Epithelial
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Tissue that supports and forms the framework of all parts of the body?
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Connective
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Tissue that contracts and produces movement?
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Muscle
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Tisse that conducts nerve impulses?
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Nervous
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Main structure of the skins outer layer?
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Epithelial
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Lines body cavities and hollow organs (digestive, respiratory, urinary tract)
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Epithelial
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Tightly packed to form barriers between systems?
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Epithelial
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Flat irregular epithelial tissue?
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Squamous (digestive tract)
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Square epithelial tissue?
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Cuboidal (around cell nuclei)
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Long and narrow epithelial tissue?
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Columnar (lining of uterine tube)
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Epithelial cells in multiple layers?
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Stratified
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Cells that are staggered and appear to be in layers but are not?
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Pseudo stratified
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A single layer of flat irregular epithelium?
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Simple squamous epithelium
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Tissues with many layers of the same cells?
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Stratified squamous epithelium
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Organs such as the bladder must vary a great deal in size as they work, these type of organs are lined with?
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transitional epithelium
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A clear sticky fluid produced by some epithelium cells?
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Mucus
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Mucus secreting cells that are scattered among pseudostratified epithelium cells?
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Goblet cells (their shaped like a goblet) (bronchial tubes, digestive tract)
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An organ specialized to produce a substance that is sent out to other parts of the body?
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Glands
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Have ducts or tubes that carry secretions away from the gland?
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Exocrine (gastroentestinal tract, sebacious glands, lacrimal (tear) glands)
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Tubular, straight, coiled, sac-like, all describe types of?
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Exocrine glands (have ducts)
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Secrete directly into the blood, which then carries their secretions to other areas of the body?
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Endocrine glands(ductless glands) (pituitary, thyroid, adrenal)
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These glands secrete hormones that effect target tissues?
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Endocrine glands
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The support fabric for all parts of the body is this type of tissue?
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Connective
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Intercellular background material found between connective tissue cells?
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Matrix
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This type of connective tissue have cells that are suspended in a fluid environment?
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Liquid connective tissue
(blood and lymph) |
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Loosely held together with semi-liquid material between the cells?
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Soft connective tissue
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This type of connective tissue includes adipose (fat)and areolar (loose)?
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Soft connective tissue
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This type of connective tissue is densely packed with fibroblasts (fibers)?
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Fibrous connective tissue
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This type of connective tissue has a firm consistency, cartilage, or is hardened by minerals in the matrix as bone?
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Hard connective tissue
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Found in membranes around vessels and organs?
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aerola tissue (loose) (soft connective tissue)
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Type of CT that stores large amounts of fat for energy?
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Adipose tissue
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Type of CT that contains cells and fibers in very loose, jelly like background material?
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Aerolar
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The main type of fiber in fibrous and other type of CT is?
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collagen
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Fibrous CT that allows the tissue to stretch and then return to is original length/size?
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elastic connective tissue
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Particularly strong forms of fibrous tissus is known as?
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capsules (around organs and some glands)
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Two types of CT where fibers are arranged in the same direction?
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tendons & ligaments
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Cordlike CT that connect muscle to bones?
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Tendons
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Cordlike CT that connect bones together?
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Ligaments
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Type of CT that is used as a structural material and as reinforcement?
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Cartilage
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Type of CT used as a shock absorber?
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Cartilage
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Type of CT that is used as a bearing surface that reduces friction between moving parts, as in joints?
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Cartilage
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Type of hard CT that forms a tough translucent material seen over the ends of LONG bones?
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Hyaline cartilage
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Type of hard CT that is found at the tip of the nose, larynx and trachea?
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Hyaline cartilage
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Type of hard CT that is found between the segments of the spine?
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Fibrocartilage
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Type of hard CT that is found in knee joints?
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Fibrocartilage
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Type of hard CT that can SPRING back into shape after bent (ear, larynx)?
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Elastic cartilage
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The cells that produce cartilage?
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Chondrocytes
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Tissue in which bones are made?
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Osseous tissue
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The cells that form bone?
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Osteo blasts
(osteo=bone, blast=immature cell) |
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Mature osteoblasts are called?
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Osteocytes
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Enclosed in bone is a special type of tissue called?
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Bone marrow
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Cells in muscle tissue that are long and threadlike are known as?
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muscle fibers
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Muscle tissue is classified into 3 types?
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Skeletal
Cardiac Smooth |
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Type of MT that works with tendons and bones to move the body?
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Skeletal muscle (voluntary)
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A pattern of dark and light banding describes?
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striations
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Type of MT that is known as striated muscle?
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Skeletal
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Cardiac muscle is also known as?
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myocardium
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Type of MT that is involuntary?
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Cardiac
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In cardiac muscle, these have branching cells and specialized membranes between the cells that appear as dark lines under a mcrscp?
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Intercalated disks
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The most abundant protein in the body?
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collagen
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Type of MT that forms the buld of the heart wall?
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Cardiac muscle
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Type of MT that forms wall around the visceral organs?
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Smooth muscle
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Sometimes referred to as visceral muscle?
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Smooth muscle
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Contraction of the muscles that causes raised bumps on the skin?
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gooseflesh
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Type of MT that are not striated, and have only one nucleus per cell?
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Smooth muscle
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Type of epithelial tissue that uses the nerves, spinal cord, and brain as its source of communications with the body?
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nervous tissue
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The basic unit of nervous tissue?
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neuron (nerve cell)
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Consists of a nerve cell body plus small branches from the cell called fibers?
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neuron
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One type of fiber in a nerve cell body that carries impulses TO the nerve cell body?
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Dendrite
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A single fiber that carries impulses away from the nerve cell body?
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Axon
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A bundle of nerve cell fibers held together with connective tissue?
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nerve
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A protective coating that insulates axons, also known as white matter?
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myelin (not all axons are coated with this, hence the brain (grey matter)
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Do not transmit nerve impulses, primary job is protection, ridding of foreign organsims, sheath?
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Neuroglia or glial
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Thin sheets of tissue?
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membranes
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Type of membrane who outerlayer is made up of epithelium?
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epithelial membrane
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Made up of closely packed active cells that manufacture lubricants?
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epithelial membrane
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Type of membrane used to protect deeper structures from invasion of microorganisms?
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epithelial membrane
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Type of epithelial membranes that are folded back onto the surface if internal organs, forming the outermost ayer?
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Serous membranes
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Type of epithelial membrane that line tubes andother spaces open to outside of body?
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Mucous membrane
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Type of epithelial membrane commonly known as the skin?
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Cutaneous membrane
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Type of epithelial membrane that secrete a fluid called serous fluid?
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Serous membrane
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A smooth, glistening kind of tissue lining the serous membrane?
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Mesothelium
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Also known as serosa?
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Serous membrane
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Type of Serous membrane that lines the thoracic cavity and cover each lung?
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The pleurae or pleuras
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Type of Serous membrane that forms part of a sac that encloses the heart?
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serous pericardium
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The largest serous membrane?
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Peritoneum
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Type of Serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity?
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Peritoneum
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The portion of the serous membrane attached to the wall of a cavity is known as?
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parietal layer
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The portion of the serous membran that attaches to an organ?
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visceral layer
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The area between the two the visceral and parietal layers in known as?
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potential space
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The mucous membrane of an organ?
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mucosa
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This type of CT membrane are thin tissue membranes that line th joint cavities?
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Synovial membranes
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Type of CT membranes that secrete a lubricating fluid that reduces friction between the ends of bones?
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Synovial membranes
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Small cushioning sacs near the joints?
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bursae
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Type of CT membranes that line bursae?
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Synovial membranes
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Refers to fibrous bands or sheets that support organs and hold them in place?
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Fascia
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Type of CT membrane that has continuous sheet of tissue that underlies the skin and contains adipose?
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Superficial Fascia
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Type of CT membrane that can also be called subcutaneous fascia?
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Superficial Fascia
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Type of CT membrane that covers, separates, and protects skeletal muscles?
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Deep fascia
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Type of CT membrane that forms the cavity that encloses the heart?
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Fibrous pericardium
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Type of CT membrane that is referred to as pericardium?
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Fibrous pericardium
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Type of CT membrane that is around the bone?
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Periosteum
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Type of CT membrane that is around the cartilage?
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Perichondrium
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Type of membrane around the lungs?
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Pleura
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Membrane around abdominal organs?
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Peritoneum
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