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Connective Tissue Flashcards

1
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Fewer fibers, more ground substance

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Loose Connective Tissue

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More fibers, less ground substance

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Dense Connective Tissue

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3
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  • Base area
  • Like cytoplasm
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Ground substance

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  • Most abundant
  • Strongest
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Collagen

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5
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  • Bold pigment
  • Curly
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Elastic

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  • Weblike
  • Networking and branching
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Reticular

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7
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Stem cell

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Mesenchymal

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8
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Immune systems

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Macrophage

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9
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Calorie storage system

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Adipocyte

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10
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Secrete/create fiber

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Fibroblast

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11
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Creation/secreation

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Blast

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12
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Maintenance

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Cyte

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13
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Broken down/repair

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Clast

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14
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  • Skin
  • More ground substance
  • Provides support and helps to protect organs
  • Contains “all three types of fibers”
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Areolar Connective Tissue

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15
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  • Heart, stomach, liver
  • Globular area
  • Nucleus is at the side
  • Known as the “body fats”
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Adipose Tissue

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16
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  • Aorta
  • Consists of fibroblasts and densely compacted
    parallel bundles of fibers
  • Provides elasticity and resilience to the tissues
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Elastic Connective Tissue

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  • Tendon
  • Uniform alignment of fibers
  • Mainly made up of collagen fiber
  • Collagen fibers are packed together
  • Allows tissue to return to its “original length” after stretching
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue

18
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  • Skin (dermis)
  • 3-dimensional structure that can withstand significant force from different directions
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Dense Irregular Connective Tissue

19
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  • Joints, respiratory tract
  • White semi-solid orientation cell
  • Helps your bones move smoothly past each other in your joints
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Hyaline Cartilage

20
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  • Supports parts of your body that need to bend and move to function
  • Most flexible
  • Found in the larynx
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Elastic Cartilage

21
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  • Predominantly in the intervertebral disks of the spine and at the insertions of ligaments and tendons
  • Act as a cushion within joints
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Fibrocartilage

22
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  • Support and protection of soft tissues, calcium
  • Production of blood cells
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Bone

23
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  • A fluid connective tissue
  • Deliver oxygen and nutrients to various cells and tissues of the body
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Blood Cell

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