Anatomy Ch 3 vocab

Question 1

membranes can choose to allow or block materials to enter or exit a cell

Answer 1

selectively permeability

Question 2

process by which molecules (and ions) move away from a region of high concentration to low concentration

Answer 2

diffusion

Question 3

solutes move through an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration

Answer 3

concentration gradient

Question 4

transport of too large of molecules that can’t go through the membrane pores, protein channels are used

Answer 4

facilitated diffusion

Question 5

diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane, water moves down It’s concentration gradient

Answer 5

osmosis

Question 6

pushes solute-containing fluid from high-pressure area to low-pressure area

Answer 6

pressure gradient

Question 7

unassisted diffusion of solutes through the plasma membrane

Answer 7

simple diffusion

Question 8

protein carriers

Answer 8

solutes pumps

Question 9

biological units of heredity located in chromatin; transmits hereditary information

Answer 9

gene

Question 10

one of the primary tissues, covers the surface of the body and lines the body cavities, ducts, and vessels

Answer 10

epithelium

Question 11

free (unattacked) surface or edge

Answer 11

apical surface

Question 12

structureless material secreted by both epithelial cells and the connective tissue cells that about the epithelium

Answer 12

basement membrane

Question 13

having few or no blood vessels

Answer 13

avascular

Question 14

moist inner lining of some organs and body cavities

Answer 14

mucous membranes

Question 15

single layer of thin squamous cells resting on a basement membrane

Answer 15

squamous epithelium

Question 16

an organ specialized to secrete or excrete substances for further use in the body or for elimination

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gland

Question 17

the passage of material formed by a cell to its exterior; cell product that is transported to the cell exterior

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secretion

Question 18

lines joints and caps at the end of bones, articular

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hyaline cartilage

Question 19

cord of dense fibrous tissues attaching a muscle to a bone

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tendons

Question 20

a cord of fibrous tissues that connects bones

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ligaments

Question 21

an abnormal accumulation of fluid in body parts or tissues, causes swelling

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edema

Question 22

vascular tissue/ is considered a connective tissue because it consists of blood cells surrounded by a nonliving, fluid matrix called blood plasma

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blood

Question 23

highly specialized to contrast, or shorten, to produce movement

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muscle tissues

Question 24

tissues is packaged by connective tissue sheets into organs called skeletal muscles, which are attached to the skeleton

Answer 24

skeletal muscle

Question 25

only in heart, has striations, involuntary

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cardiac muscle

Question 26

structural an functional units of the kidney

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neoplasm

Question 27

reduction in size or wasting away of an organ or cell resulting from disease or lack of use

Answer 27

atrophy