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165 Cards in this Set
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Sagittal Plane |
Divides the body into left and right halves |
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Frontal/Coronal Plane |
Divides the body into anterior and posterior halves |
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Transverse Plane |
Divides the body into caudal and cranial portions |
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Notochord |
cartilaginous rod of living cells that runs the long axis of the body |
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Lateral neural cartilage |
lampreys, prevent notochord movement from left to right |
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Centrum |
surrounds notochord |
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Pharynx |
produces gills |
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Neurulation |
formation of the neural tube |
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Pericardial cavity |
houses the heart |
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Pleuroperitoneal cavity |
houses the rest of the visceral organs |
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Transverse septum |
separates pericardial cavity from pluroperitoneal cavity |
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Homoplasy |
similar structures in different species that aren't homologous |
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Ontogeny |
growth/ development |
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Echinoderms |
starfish |
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Gnathostome |
jawed vertebrates |
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Agnathans |
hagfish |
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Ungulates |
mammals with hooves |
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4 classes of tissue |
Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous |
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Extracellular matrix |
acellular matter in tissue |
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Epithelial tissue |
covers all of the body and inner and outer cavities |
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Desmosomes |
tight intracellular junctions |
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Gap junction |
ion channels; allows communication between cells |
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Basement membrane |
separates epithelium from underlying tissue |
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Simple Squamous cells |
flattened, scale-like cells |
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Simple Cuboidal cells |
cube shaped cells |
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Simple Columnar cells |
column shaped; taller than wide |
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Pseudostratified columnar cells |
single layer of columnar shaped cells with varying height often found in the upper respiratory tract |
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Stratified squamous cells |
found in areas of the body that endure more wear and tear than others |
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Two types of stratified squamous cells |
keratinized, non-keratinized |
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Transitional cells |
stratified epithelium of variably shaped cells |
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Exocrine gland |
secretes product into ducts |
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Endocrine gland |
secretes products into bloodstream |
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4 classes of connective tissue |
proper, blood, bone, cartilage |
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All connective tissue arises from |
mesenchymal cells |
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2 classes of connective tissue proper |
Loose, Dense |
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3 types of loose connective tissue |
Aereolar, reticular, adipose |
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3 types of dense connective tissue |
irregular, regular, elastic |
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Aereolar connective tissue |
underlies most of body epithelia; surrounds small nerves and vessels |
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The EM of aereolar connective tissue is composed of |
collagen, reticular, elastic fibers |
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Reticular connective tissue |
only has reticular fibers |
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Adipose tissue |
stores nutrients, insulates body, protects from trauma |
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Dense connective tissue contains more of this compound |
fiber |
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Dense irregular tissue |
found in dermis; primarily collagen running in random patterns |
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Dense regular tissue |
collagen running in repetitious patterns; collagen bundles run parallel to one another; found in ligaments and tendons |
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Elastic connective tissue |
uses just elastic fibers; found in areas that need flexibility |
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Chondrocyte |
Mature cartilage cell |
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3 types of cartilage |
Hyaline, elastic, fibrocartilage |
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Osteocyte |
mature bone-secreting cell |
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Osteoclast |
bone remodeling cell |
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Osteoblast |
immature bone cell |
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Chondroblast |
Immature cartilage cell |
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Plasma |
the EM of blood |
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Lacunae |
Chondrocytes and Osteocytes reside in these |
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3 types of muscle |
skeletal, cardiac, smooth |
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Skeletal muscle |
striated, multinucleated, voluntary |
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Smooth muscle |
nonstriated, 1 nuclei, involuntary |
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Cardiac muscle |
striated, 1-2 nuclei, involuntary and branching |
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All epithelium has underlying _____ ______ _______ |
loose connective tissue |
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Keratin |
secreted in order to prevent dehydration; the affected cells die |
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Conjunctiva |
skin covering the eye |
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Another word for keratinized |
cornified |
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Goblet cell/gland |
unicellular, secretes mucous |
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Granular cell/gland |
secretes mucous, pheromones, and alkaloids (fish and amphibians) |
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Photophore |
light emitting cells of deep sea fish |
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Alveoli |
cup-shaped sacs |
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3 different modes of secretion by glands |
merocrine, holocrine, apocrine |
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Merocrine glands |
secretes products to cell membrane |
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Apocrine glands |
cell pinches off its product |
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Holocrine glands |
secrete themselves |
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Femoral gland |
(in lizards) secretes a substance that hardens and forms spines that restrain females during copulation |
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Uropygial gland |
(in birds) secretes a water repellant that is smoothed over feathers |
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Epidermis |
multilayered portion of the integument derived from the ectoderm |
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Dermis |
portion of the integument derived from the mesoderm; has the ability to make bone |
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Integument |
skin |
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Hypodermis |
least superficial layer of the integumentary system |
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Melanophores |
melanin pigment cells |
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Parotoid gland |
granular gland found behind the eyes of many toads that secretes bufotoxin (an alkaloid and neurotoxin) |
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Uropygial gland |
(in birds) secretes a water repellant (oil) that is smoothed over feathers |
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Mammary glands are modified ________ glands |
sudoriferous |
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Ceruminous gland |
secretes cerum in the ear |
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Milk lines |
elevated ribbons of ectoderm that give rise to mammary glands |
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Epidermal scales |
repetitious thickenings of the stratum corneum found only in amniotes |
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Stratum corneum |
outermost layer of the epidermis that is made up of keratinized squamous epithelial cells |
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Scutes |
large, thin, quadrilateral or polygonal scales; found on the belly of snakes |
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Clalmus/Quill |
base of the shaft of a contour feather |
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Inferior umbilicus |
opening for vessels in a feather |
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"Double feather" |
afterfeathers that are the same length as main feathers |
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Arrector plumarum |
the muscle that is responsible for erecting feathers |
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Pterylae |
symmetrical tracts of feathers |
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Superior umbilicus |
portion of a contour feather that gives rise to afterfeathers |
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Down feathers |
small, fluffy feathers lying underneath and between contour feathers |
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Sebaceous gland |
secretes oil, alveolar |
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Sudoriferous gland |
secretes sweat, tubular, mammals |
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Meibomian gland |
keeps eye moist |
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Chalazion |
inflamed hair duct |
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Unguis |
hard top of nail |
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Subunguis |
soft bottom of nail |
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Cuneus |
cornified pad, ungulates,softer than subunguis |
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Dermal papilla |
grows from the epidermis to the dermis, vascularizes hair follicles |
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Vibrissae |
whiskers |
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3 types of horns |
Bovine, Pronged, Hair |
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Bovine horns |
outer layer is cornified, inner is dermal bone |
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Hair horns |
only found in Rhinos |
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Pronged horns |
similar to bovine horns, but outer layer is continuously shed |
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Antlers |
false horns, frontal bone covered in velvet |
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Baleen |
cornified epithelia of whales that are used to filter plankton |
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Ischial callosities |
thick pads on monkeys' appendages |
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Tori |
epidermal pads, used for walking found in dogs and cats |
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Apical pads |
tori found on distal digits |
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Corns/Callouses |
caused by friction, thickenings of the stratum corneum |
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The most superficial layer of the dermis (not the epidermis!) |
Papillary layer |
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What type of tissue is the papillary layer of the dermis composed of? |
aereolar tissue |
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What is the deepest layer of the dermis? |
reticular layer |
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The reticular layer of the dermis is composed of what type of tissue? |
Dense connective tissue |
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Dermal bone is found in every living vertebrate with the exception of |
birds |
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4 layers of early dermal armor: |
lamellar, spongy, dentin, enamel |
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Hair scales can be found in |
Pangolins |
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4 types of bone: |
long, flat, short, irregular |
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Sesamoid bones |
short bones that are not in direct contact with other bones |
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Scleoblasts give rise to what four types of mineralized tissue? |
Spongy, Lamellar, Acellular, Metaplasic |
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Spongy bone |
has trabeculae and intertrabecular spaces that contain red marrow |
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Compact bone |
contains haversian canals |
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Metaplasic bone |
bone that responds to hormones |
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Acellular bone |
bone that lacks canaliculi and lacunae and osteocytes |
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4 types of cartilage |
elastic, mineralized, hyaline, fibrocartilage |
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Fibrocartilage |
structural intermediate between fibrous connective tissue and bone/cartilage |
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Mineralized/Calcified cartilage |
only found in the jaws of shark and rays to increase strength |
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Hyaline cartilage |
'clear' cartilage |
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Appositional growth |
cartilage grows in thickness due to the addition of more extracellular matrix on the peripheral surface by newly differentiated chondroblasts |
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Interstitial growth |
cartilage grows in thickness due to the conversion of chondrocytes to chondroblasts which secrete fibrous matrix from lacunae |
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Enameloid (not enamel!) is really what other stucture? |
dentin |
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Odontoblasts |
produce dentin |
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Ameloblasts |
produce enamel |
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Intramembranous ossification |
Differentiation of mesenchymal cells in the periosteum into osteoprogenitor cells, then osteoblasts which secrete bone matrix |
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Endochondral ossification |
Hyaline cartilage model → perichondrial mesenchymal cells → osteoblasts→ bony collar→ chondroblasts die and secrete calcified matrix |
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Perichondrium is found in all types of cartilage with the exception of |
fibrocartilage |
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The patellar tendon is a |
ligament |
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Ligaments are derived from the |
periosteum |
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Denticle |
spiny elevation of dentin |
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Rhomboid scales |
4 layered dermal scale that evolved to ganoid and cosmoid scales |
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Ganoid scales |
evolved to elasmoid scales, composed of specialized enamel |
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Elasmoid scales |
thin lamellar bone that may be associated with a fibrous plate, found in bony fish |
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Cycloid scales |
free border elasmoid scales |
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Ctenoid scales |
hair border elasmoid scales |
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Placoid |
scales with a spine of enameloid rising from the basal plate |
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Osteoderm |
bone in the dermal layer |
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Chromatophores |
contain pigment granules |
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Melanophores |
brown pigment chromatophores |
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Melanosomes |
house melanophores |
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Xanthophores |
yellow granules |
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Erythrophores |
red granules |
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Lipophores |
erythrophores and xanthophores |
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Iridophores |
contain guanine which cause them to look iridescent |
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Melanocytes |
pigment cells that arent confined to the skin |
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3 layers of the mammalian epidermis |
Stratum corneum, granulosum, germinativum |
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Hydroxyapatite crystals |
turns collagen into bone, calcium and phosphate ions |
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Cementing substance |
hold the crystals in the matrix, water and mucosugars |
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Fibroblast |
forms collagen |
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Dentinal tubules |
canaliculi-like processes in dentin |
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Membrane bone |
bone formed from intramembranous ossification |
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Replacement bone |
bone formed by endochondral ossification |
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Perichondrium |
layer of dense irregular connective tissue that surround hyaline cartilage |
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Panniculus Adiposus |
is composed primarily of adipose and lacks muscle fibers, typical epidermis in humans
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Panniculus Carnosus |
has some adipose but has more muscle fibers |
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Cutaneous maximus |
muscle of the hypodermis |