Flashcards in Histology Deck (91)
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What are the four categories of tissues?
epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous
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What does the Epithelial tissues include?
simple, stratified, pseudostratified, transitional, glandular
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What are the shapes of epithelial tissue?
squamous, cuboidal, columnar
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what are the three types of connective tissues?
protein fibers, mixed, fluid
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what do the protein fibers include?
dense, loose, adipose, reticular
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what do the mixed tissues include?
cartilage, bone, fluid
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What are the only fluid connective tissues we have?
blood
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what are the 3 types of muscle tissue?
skeletal, smooth, cardiac
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what are the types of nervous tissue?
glial, neuron
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An epithelial tissue that has one layer
simple
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An epithelial tissue that has many layers
stratified
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filling between the cells
interstitial/ extracellular matrix
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Most abundant tissue in the body
connective tissue
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Where are connective tissues found?
throughout the body
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What are connective tissues composed of?
Scattered cells with abundant intercellular material
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What are the functions of connective tissues? (9)
bind structures, support, framework, fill spaces, store fat, produce blood cells, protects against infection, repairs tissue damage
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produced by connective tissue cells and excreted to their exterior, separates living cells
extracellular matrix
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what does the extracellular matrix consist of?
ground substances and fibers
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composed of water and adhesion proteins
ground substance
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allowing connective tissue cells to attach themselves to the matrix fibers embedded in the ground substance
adhesion proteins
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strands of collagen, elastin, or reticular protein
protein fibers
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mixture of fibers and hard mineral deposits
protein fibers and ground substance
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loose
areolar
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refers to cartilage
chondro
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space
lacunae
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what are the 2 categories of connective tissues?
dense and loose
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what do dense protein fiber matrix include?
regular and irregular
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attachment for basement memberane
loose
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protein matrix with fat containing cells scattered throughout
adipose
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