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25 Cards in this Set
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List the 4 main tissues of the body? |
Epithelial Connective Muscular Nervous |
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What is the name of the non-cellular layer that attaches epithelial tissue to other layers? |
Basement membrane how |
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How many layers of cells are in simple epithelium? |
Only one cell layer thick |
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Name the 3 general cell shapes of epithelial tissue |
Squamous, cuboidal, and columnar |
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A single, flattened layer of cells represents what type of epithelium? |
Simple squamous epithelial |
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What functional problem could occur if the digestive tract were lined with stratified squamous epithelium instead of simple columnar epithelium? |
There would not be a place for digested food like simple columnar has. |
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A multiple layer of flattened epithelial cells represents what cell type? |
Stratified squamous epithelium |
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What cell type lines the inside of the urinary bladder? |
Transitional epithelium |
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Can you make the hairs on your arm "stand on end"? What type of muscle is responsible for this? |
No, involuntary. Smooth muscle does it. |
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Striated and voluntary |
Skeletal |
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Striated and involuntary |
Cardiac |
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Nonstriated and involuntary |
Smooth |
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What muscle cell type has intercalated discs? |
Cardiac |
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The intestinal wall contains what kind of muscle? |
Smooth |
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The heart is composed primarily of what type of muscle? |
Cardiac |
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The muscles of your arm are primarily composed of what type of cell? |
Skeletal |
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What cell type is responsible for the transmission of electrochemical impulses? |
Neuron |
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What is the extra cellular matrix in blood called? |
Plasma |
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Name the 3 types of fibers in areole tissue? |
Collagen Elastic Reticular |
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What type of connective tissue is springlike and found in the middle walls of arteries? |
Elastic |
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What is the cell type in adipose tissue? |
Adipocytes |
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Name the outer connective tissue layer that envelopes cartilage? |
Collagen fibers |
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Describe the functional difference between fibrocartilage and hyaline cartilage? |
Fibrocartilage is usually where stress is placed, hyaline is at the ends of long bones |
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What is another name for calcium and phosphate minerals in bone? |
Hydroxyapatite |
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How do you distinguish between epithelium and connective tissue? |
Epithelium is more cellular than connective tissue. The nuclei in epithelial tissues are aligned. I'm connective tissue, there are more non-cellular structures present such as fibers or a matrix |
