Skin Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is areolar connective tissue made out of?
Fibroblasts, elastic, and collagenous fibers.
What is reticular connective tissue made out of?
Made up of only reticular fibers.
What is adipose connective tissue made out of?
They’re modified fibroblasts.
What is dense regular connective tissue made out of?
Contains fibroblasts and a few elastic fibers.
What is dense irregular connective tissue made out of?
Collagenous fibers, fibroblasts, and few elastic fibers.
What is elastic connective tissue made out of?
Elastic fibers with fibroblasts embedded in between.
What is hyaline cartilage made out of?
Collagenous fibers
What is fibrocartilage made out of?
Collagenous fibers
What is elastic cartilage made out of?
Elastic fibers.
Where can you find areolar connective tissue?
Below epithelium of most parts of the body.
Where can you find reticular connective tissue?
Bone marrow
Spleen
Liver
Lymph nodes.
Where can you find adipose connective tissue?
Everywhere in the body.
Where can you find dense regular connective tissue?
Tendons
Ligaments
Aponeuroses
Covering skeletal muscle.
Where can you find dense irregular connective tissue?
Fibrous capsules of organs and joints
periostea and perichondria
nerve and muscle sheath
and makes up the dermis.
Where can you find elastic connective tissue?
Found in the walls of the aorta and other blood vessels
Vocal cords
surround respiratory passages
Ligamenta flavaand ligamentum nuchae of spinal column.
Often underlies transitional epithelium.
Where can you find hyaline cartilage?
Tracheal rings
Costal Cartilages of Ribs
Covers bone surfaces at synovial joints.
Tough buy flexible*
Where can you find fibrocartilage?
Intervetebral discs
Menisci of the Knee Joint
Pubic Symphysis
Very tough and durable
Where can you find elastic cartilage?
Pinna
Epiglottis
Auditory Canal
Tip of Nose
Will recoil when displaced
Name the four wandering cells.
Free Macrophages
Mast Cells
Microphages
Lymphocytes.
Name the five fixed cells.
Fibroblasts
Fixed Macrophages
Adipocytes
Mesenchymal Cells
Melanocytes
Where can you find stratified columnar epithelia?
Ducts of salivary glands
Small areas of pharynx
Epiglottis
Anus
Mammary ducts
Urethra
Where can you find pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelia?
Trachea
Nasopharynx
Bronchi
Portions of Male Reproductive Tract
Where can you find simple columnar epithelia?
Stomach
Intestinal Lining
Excretory Ducts
Where can you find transitional epithelia?
Urinary Bladder
Renal Pelvis
Ureters
