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Connective Tissue Function

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Provides support, most abundant and diverse, storing reserve fluids and energy, transportation of things throughout the body

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External of your bones and stores calcium

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Compact Bone Connective Tissue

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Simple, stratified, pseudostratified

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Types of forms of epithelium cells

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Cartilage Connective Tissue

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No nerves or blood, found in your joints and in other parts of your body

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Even bigger versions of a cuboidal cell

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Columnar Cells

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Receives signals from other neurons, branch like

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Dendrites

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Epithelial Tissue Function

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Covers and protects body

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How much cells make up one nervous tissue

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Cube, absorbs nutrients, secretes things

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Cuboidal Cells

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Example of squamous cells

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Skin

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Pancreas

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Example of cuboidal cells

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Pseudostratified epithelium

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Layered, but the cells are different shapes and sizes

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The muscle in your stomach lining

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Example of smooth muscle

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How epithelial tissue is named

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Name of cell + name of layer -= example - simple squamous cells

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Types of epithelial tissue

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Proper epithelium and glandular epithelium

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Dendrites

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Receives signals from other cells, branch like

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Simple epithelium

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1 layer of cells

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Proper Connective Tissue

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Most diverse, composed of ligaments, tendons, etc and is actually used to connect things

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Compact Bone Connective Tissue

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External of your bones and stores calcium

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Normal body of a neuron

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Cell Body / Soma

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Example of columnar cells

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Lines sex organs

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Nervous Tissue Function

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Control and communication, send electrical impulses and sense stimuli

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Types of muscle tissue

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Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Most common muscle that attaches to bones to make them move

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Skeletal muscle

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Squamous, cuboidal, columnar
Types of cells in epithelial
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Layered, but the cells are different shapes and sizes
Pseudostratified epithelium
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Example of proper epithelium
Skin
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Multiple layers
Stratified epithelium
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Example of cuboidal cells
Pancreas
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Rope like, transmits messages
Axon
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Glandular Epithelium
Forms glands and secretes hormones and other substances
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Skin is an example of what flat cells?
Example of squamous cells
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Most diverse, composed of ligaments, tendons, etc and is actually used to connect things
Proper Connective Tissue
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Flat and absorptive, easily dispensable
Squamous Cells
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Lines the walls of hollow organs and blood vessels
Smooth muscle
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Example of pseudostratified epithelium
Trachea
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Smooth muscle
Lines the walls of hollow organs and blood vessels
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Types of connective tissue
Proper, Cartilage, Bone, Blood
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Lines sex organs
Example of columnar cells
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What tissue covers and protects body
Epithelial Tissue Function
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Axon
Rope like, transmits messages
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Cuboidal Cells
Cube, absorbs nutrients, secretes things
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Epithelium that forms glands and secretes hormones and other substances
Glandular Epithelium
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1 layer of cells
Simple epithelium
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Proper Epithelium
Lines and protects your body
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Example of stratified epithelium
Oral cavity
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In the heart, involuntary movement
Cardiac Muscle
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Types of tissue
Nervous tissue, muscle tissue, connective tissue, epithelial tissue
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Oral cavity
Example of stratified epithelium
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Types of forms of epithelium cells
Simple, stratified, pseudostratified
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Skin is an example of what type of epithelium?
Example of proper epithelium
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Provides support, most abundant and diverse, storing reserve fluids and energy, transportation of things throughout the body
Connective Tissue Function
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Control and communication, send electrical impulses and sense stimuli
Nervous Tissue Function
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Squamous Cells
Flat and absorptive, easily dispensable
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Movement
Muscle Tissue Function
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Skeletal muscle
Most common muscle that attaches to bones to make them move
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Neurons
Nervous tissue cells
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No nerves or blood, found in your joints and in other parts of your body
Cartilage Connective Tissue
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Example of skeletal muscle
Bicep
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Nervous tissue cells
Neurons
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Parts of a neuron
Cell body / soma, dendrites, and axon
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Proper, Cartilage, Bone, Blood
Types of connective tissue
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Example of smooth muscle
The muscle in your stomach lining
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Columnar Cells
Even bigger versions of a cuboidal cell
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Cardiac Muscle
In the heart, involuntary movement
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What epithelium lines the alveoli in lungs
Example of simple epithelium
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Lines and protects your body
Proper Epithelium
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Example of simple epithelium
Lines the alveoli in lungs
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Well vascularized
Muscle tissue trait
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Muscle Tissue Function
Movement
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Trachea is an example of what type of (simple/stratified/pseudo stratified) epithelium
Example of pseudostratified epithelium
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Spongey Bone Connective Tissue
Inside of bones and at the heads of bones, porous, makes bone marrow
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Bicep
Example of skeletal muscle
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Muscle tissue trait
Well vascularized
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Types of cells in epithelium
Squamous, cuboidal, columnar
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Stratified epithelium
Multiple layers
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3 factors of connective tissue
All develop from mesenchyme, have different degrees of blood flow, all tissue is generally made of non living material
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Cell Body / Soma
Normal body of a neuron

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