Connective Tissue Flashcards
1
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Types of fiber
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Collagen fibers-one of the strongest proteins the body makes
2
Q
Adipose tissue
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Very vascular
Rule breaker
(Fat)
3
Q
Dense irregular
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Packed with fibers no room for blood vessels; slow healing
Strength in all directions
Around bone and cartilage
4
Q
Loose particular
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Makes up framework of hollow organs
Very vascular to filter the lymph
5
Q
Dense regular
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Not many blood vessels
All fibers in one direction
6
Q
Dense elastic
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Mainly under transitional epithelium, wall of respiratory pathways, walls of blood vessels
7
Q
Characteristics
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Most common tissue
More matrix than cells
Job is to hold things together
Vascularity varies
