Anatomy Terms/Vocab Flashcards
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Withstand pressure due to thick collagen fibers
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Fibro Cartilage
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Example of fibro cartilage
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Knee joints
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Comprised of 4 layers, everywhere else but your feet and arms
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Thin skin
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Example of hyaline cartilage
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nose
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Knee joints
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Example of fibro cartilage
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Glial Cells
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Provides support, insulation, and protection to neurons
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Polar
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Distinct sides
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Normal collagen fibers
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Reticular Fibers
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Focuses light on the retina
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Lens
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What bones are made out of
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Calcium Phosphate
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Osteons
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Cylindrical units that make up bone
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Myofibrils
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Long cylindrical cells in skeletal muscle
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Endocrine Glands
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Secretes hormones into bloodstreams or nearby areas
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Detects sound waves and pressure
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Mechanoreceptors
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Epiphysis
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Ends of a bone
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Cells that secrete fibers in connective tissue
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Blast Cells
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Macrophage
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Cells in your connective tissue that eat bacteria
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Thick skin
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Bottom of your feet and hands, comprised of 5 layers
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Hormones that can be received inside of a cell
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Lipid Soluble Hormones
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Proper connective tissue with fewer fibers and more cells
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Loose Proper Connective Tissue
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Secretes juices to ducts or tubes that lead outside the body or directly leads into an organ
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Exocrine Glands
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Hold all the blood and nerve endings in a bone
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Central Canals
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Mechanoreceptors
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Detects sound waves and pressure
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Example of product of exocrine glands
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Sweat, saliva, mucus
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White connective tissue surrounding the outside of the eyeball
Sclera
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Chondroblasts
Cartilage blast cells
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Bone blast cells
Osteoblasts
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Sclera
White connective tissue surrounding the outside of the eyeball
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Diaphysis
Middle of a bone
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Photoreceptors
Detect light
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Fat tissue
Adipose Tissue
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Calcium Phosphate compose what body parts
What bones are made out of
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Reticular Fibers
Normal collagen fibers
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Osteoblasts
Bone blast cells
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Exocrine Glands
Secretes juices to ducts or tubes that lead outside the body or directly leads into an organ
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What type of glands secrete hormones into bloodstreams or nearby areas
Endocrine Glands
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Apical side
Side facing up, in this case it would be the side facing the inside of your body or the outside of your body depending on where the cell is
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Basement Membrane
Thin layer of collagen that holds epithelium together throughout the body
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Chemoreceptors
Detects molecules
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Gaseous state that enables us to smell
Volatile
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Adipose Tissue
Fat tissue
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Leukocytes
White blood cells, immune system
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Detect light
Photoreceptors
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Lumps that make your tongue rough
Papillae
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Long cylindrical cells in skeletal muscle
Myofibrils
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Water soluble hormones
Hormones that have to be received by special receptors in the cell membrane
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Balance of materials and energy that keep you alive
Homeostasis
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Central Canals
Hold all the blood and nerve endings in a bone
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Bottom of your feet and hands, comprised of 5 layers
Thick skin
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Provides support, insulation, and protection to neurons
Glial Cells
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Transduction
Translation of chemical, electro magnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potential
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Hyaline, elastic, fibro
Types of cartilage
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Areolar Tissue
Loose tissue that has a lot of open space that is able to hold water and liquid
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Side facing up, in this case it would be the side facing the inside of your body or the outside of your body depending on where the cell is
Apical side
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Translation of chemical, electro magnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potential
Transduction
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Thin layer of collagen that holds epithelium together throughout the body
Basement Membrane
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Most common, glassy looking
Hyaline Cartilage
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Red blood cells transport blood and oxygen
Erythrocytes
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Loose tissue that has a lot of open space that is able to hold water and liquid
Areolar Tissue
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Bottom side of a cell facing towards a basement membrane
Basal Side
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Cartilage blast cells
Chondroblasts
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Cylindrical units that make up bone
Osteons
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Elastic Cartilage
Same as hyaline, but much more elastic
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Ground substance of blood tissue
Blood plasma
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Hormones that have to be received by special receptors in the cell membrane
Water soluble hormones
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Lens
Focuses light on the retina
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Loose Proper Connective Tissue
Proper connective tissue with fewer fibers and more cells
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Same as hyaline, but much more elastic
Elastic Cartilage
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Ground Substance
Fills spaces between cells, flexible, made of starch and protein and water
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Reticular tissue
Provides a network for liver, spleen, and bone marrow
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Papillae
Lumps that make your tongue rough
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Detects molecules
Chemoreceptors
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Pupil
Opening in iris that opens and closes to allow light to go through
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Erythrocytes
Red blood cells transport blood and oxygen
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Form a branching framework, made of flexible elastin, found in skin and blood vessel walls
Elastic Fibers
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Basal Side
Bottom side of a cell facing towards a basement membrane
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Hyaline Cartilage
Most common, glassy looking
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Opening in iris that opens and closes to allow light to go through
Pupil
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Extracellular Matrix
Matrix of cells that don't move
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Cells in your connective tissue that eat bacteria
Macrophage
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Lipid Soluble Hormones
Hormones that can be received inside of a cell
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Matrix of cells that don't move
Extracellular Matrix
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Platelets
Makes blood clot by having dissolved proteins solidify and become a matrix
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Ends of a bone
Epiphysis
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Ear
Example of elastic cartilage
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Blood plasma
Ground substance of blood tissue
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What do blast cells turn into
They turn into cells that maintain the matrix that they just created, and they can revert back at any time
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Sweat, saliva, mucus
Example of product of exocrine glands
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Distinct sides
Polar
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Thin skin
Comprised of 4 layers, everywhere else but your feet and arms
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Fibro Cartilage
Withstand pressure due to thick collagen fibers
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Nose
Example of hyaline cartilage
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Volatile
Gaseous state that enables us to smell
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Blast Cells
Cells that secrete fibers in connective tissue
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Fills spaces between cells, flexible, made of starch and protein and water
Ground Substance
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Marfan Syndrome
Genetic disorder of connective tissue that weakens tissue over time
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Homeostasis
Balance of materials and energy that keep you alive
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Example of elastic cartilage
Ear
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Types of cartilage
Hyaline, elastic, fibro
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Platelets
Makes blood clot by having dissolved proteins solidify and become a matrix
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Middle of a bone
Diaphysis
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Elastic Fibers
Form a branching framework, made of flexible elastin, found in skin and blood vessel walls
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Genetic disorder of connective tissue that weakens tissue over time
Marfan Syndrome
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White blood cells, immune system
Leukocytes
