Activity 9 CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Question 1

Distributed throughout the body but is never exposed to the outside environment

Answer 1

Connective tissue

Question 2

Three basic components of connective tissue

Answer 2

Specialized cells
Fibers
Ground substances

Question 3

Functions performed by connective tissue

Answer 3

A) supports/protects some parts of the body
B) connects organs
C) fills up spaces between or within organs

Question 4

Types of connective tissue

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A. Areolar or Loose
B. Dense
C. Cartilage
D. Bone or osseous
E. Adipose

Question 5

Most numerous and largest fiber

Answer 5

Collagen fiber

Question 6

Thick and somewhat wavy and exhibit faint longitudinal striations

Answer 6

Collagen fiber

Question 7

Present in varying abundance in all types of connective tissues

Answer 7

Collagen fiber

Question 8

Flexible but offer great resistance to a pulling force and abundant in the dermis, bone, tendon, dentin, etc.

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Collagen fiber

Question 9

Fine, single fiber which is usually straight and form branching and anastomosing network

Answer 9

Elastic fiber

Question 10

Fiber that has the ability to be stretched by a small force and return to it’s original dimension when force is removed.

Answer 10

Elastic fiber

Question 11

What organs are rich in elastic fibers?

Answer 11

Aorta and lungs

Question 12

Very Slender fiber which tends to form delicate network rather than coarse bundles.

Answer 12

Reticular fiber

Question 13

This fiber persist in delicate networks surrounding adipose cells, smooth muscle cells, sarcolemma of striated muscle, endoneurium of nerve cells and in close association with basal lamina of most epithelia

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Reticular fiber

Question 14

One of the fixed cells of a loose connective tissue

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Fibroblast

Question 15

Shape of the cell in connective tissue

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Flattened with oval nucleus

Question 16

Appears like a fibroblast but nucleus is smaller

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Inactive macrophage

Question 17

Type of dense connective tissue that is found where great tensile strength is required, such as in ligaments and tendons

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Dense Regular connective tissue

Question 18

Collagen fibers are compactly arranged in bundles and between those are rows of fibroblasts.

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Dense Regular connective tissue

Question 19

Collagenous fibers are larger, more numerous, and more concentrated.

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Dense irregular connective tissue

Question 20

Elastic fibers are larger and more numerous

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Dense irregular connective tissue

Question 21

Specialized form of tissue characterized to have no nerves or blood vessels of its own

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Cartilage

Question 22

Types of cartilage in the animal body are

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hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage

Question 23

Most common cartilage

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Hyaline

Question 24

A thin membrane outer covering of a cartilage and is comparable to the periosteum of a bone

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Perichondrium

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Substance of the cartilage secreted by chondroblast

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Matrix

Question 26

Young cartilage cell

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Chondroblast

Question 27

Tiny space containing a cartilage cell, usually surrounded by darken capsule when seen under the microscope

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Lacuna

Question 28

Cartilage cell found in the lacuna

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Chondrocyte

Question 29

There is a presence of elastic fiber in the matric

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Elastic cartilage

Question 30

The matrix is permeated with collagenous fibers

Answer 30

Fibrocartilage

Question 31

Small chondrocytes in lacunae are

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usually distributed in rows within the fibrous matrix

Question 32

In fibrocartilage, ____________ is absent because fibrous cartilage forms a transition area between hyaline and tendon or ligament

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Perichondrium

Question 33

The outermost covering of the bone that contains blodd vessels, nerve, and osteogenic cell

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Periosteum

Question 34

Made up of spindle-shaped bone cells; continuous, uninterrupted, and arranged around the bone's circumference.

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Periosteal lamella

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Structural units of the compact bone. More or less oval in shape, closely packed to constitute bulk of the bone

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Haversian systems

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Intact haversian system includes:

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Haversian canal Concentric lamella Lacunae Canaliculi Osteocyte

Question 37

a small canal found at the center of the Haversian system. It contains the bone marrow and communicates with blood vessels in the central marrow cavity of the bone shaft it is responsible of the distribution of nutrients to the bone cells.

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Haversian canal

Question 38

called Haversian lamella This is the bone matrix in form of continuous rings arranged around the Haversian canal

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Concentric lamella

Question 39

tiny spaces found between the rings of concentric lamellae. They contain the bone cells called osteocytes.

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Lacunae

Question 40

numerous branching little canals which cerve to connect with neighboring lacunae for the purpose of distribution of nutrients

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Canaliculi

Question 41

Mature cell usually found at the lacuna

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Osteocyte

Question 42

Tissue that fill up spaces between organs. Seen in subcutaneous layer of skin and other parts

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Adipose or fat tissue

Question 43

Round cells are called

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Adipocytes