Anatomy labs for lab pract. 2 Flashcards
Description and location of Stratum corneum
Most superficial layer, its composed of many layers of keratinized, dead epithelial cells; appear scaly and flattened; resists water loss, abrasion, and absorption.
Description and location of Stratum lucidum
Between stratum corneum and stratum granulosum on soles and palms of thick skin. Cells appear clear; nuclei organelles, and plasma membranes no longer visible.
Description and location of Stratum granulosum
Beneath the stratum corneum (or stratum lucid of thick skin). Three to five layers of flattened granular cells; contain shrunken fibers of keratin and shriveled nuclei.
Description and location of Stratum spinosum
Beneath the stratum granulosum. Many layers of cells w/ centrally located, large, oval nuclei; develop fibers of keratin; cells becoming flattened in superficial portion.
Description and location of Stratum basale
Deepest layer. A single row of cuboidal or columnar cells; layer also includes the melanocytes; frequent cell division; some cells become parts of more superficial layers.
Apocrine sweat gland
Most abundant in the axillary and genital regions. The sweat ducts open into the hair follicles and become active at puberty. Their secretions increase during stress and pain and have little influence on thermoregulation.
Arrector pili muscle
They are attached to the hair follicle and can pull the hair to a more upright position, causing goosebumps when experiencing cold temperatures or fear.
Sebaceous Gland
Secretes an oily sebum into the hair follicles, which keeps the hair and epidermal surface pliable and somewhat waterproof.
Epidermis
The outer layer of skin which consists of stratified squamous epithelium.
Dermis
Inner layer of skin, consists of a superficial papillary region of areolar connective tissue and a thicker and deeper reticular region of dense irregular connective tissue.
Hypodermis
Beneath the Dermis, subcutaneous layer; superficial fascia composed of adipose and areolar connective tissues. The hypodermic is not considered a true layer of the skin.
Hair Papilla
Located at the base of the hair, it contains a network of capillaries that supply the nutrients for cell divisions for hair growth within the hair bulb.
Sweat Glands (sudoriferous glands)
Distributed over most regions of the body and consist of two types of glands.
Eccrine Sweat Glands
Widespread glands that are most numerous on the palms, soles of feet and the forehead. Their ducts open to the surface at a sweat pore. The secretions increase during hot days, physical exercise, and stress; they serve as an excretory function and can help prevent our body temperature from overheating.
Apocrine Sweat Glands
Most abundant in the axillary (arm pit) and genital regions. The sweat ducts open into the hair follicles and become active at puberty. The secretions increase during stress and pain and have little influence on thermoregulation.
Skeletal Muscle
Long, threadlike cells; striated; many nuclei near plasma membrane.
Voluntary movements of skeletal parts; facial expressions or contracting the muscles in your thigh.
Muscles usually attached to bones
Smooth Muscle
Shorter spindle-shaped cells; single central nucleus.
Involuntary movements of internal organs
Walls of hollow internal organs
Cardiac muscle
Branched cells; striated; single nucleus (usually)
Heart contractions to pump blood; involuntary
Heart walls
Nervous Tissue
Neurons w/ long cellular processes; neuroglia smaller and variable
Sensory reception and conduction of action potentials; neuroglia supportive
Brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves
Skeletal Muscle Characteristics
Unbranched and relatively parallel cells Striations are present and obvious Nucleus is multinucleate Intercalated discs (junction where cells fit together) is absent Voluntary control
Smooth Muscle Characteristics
Spindle-shaped cells Striations are absent Nucleus is uninucleated Intercalated discs are absent Involuntary control
Cardiac Muscle Characteristics
Branched and connected cells in complex networks Striations are present but faint Nucleus is usually uninucleated Intercalated discs are present Involuntary control
Name the three types of muscle tissues
Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
Which muscle tissue is under conscious control?
Skeletal
Which of the following organs lacks smooth muscle?
heart
Which muscle tissue lacks striations?
Smooth
What conducts action potentials?
Neurons
Muscles of facial expression are?
Skeletal muscles
Which muscle tissue is multinucleated?
Skeletal muscles
Intercalated discs represent the junction where heart muscle cells fit together? True or false?
True
Both cardiac and skeletal muscle cells are voluntary? True or False
False, skeletal muscles are voluntary and cardiac are involuntary.
What are neurons?
Also called nerve cells, contain a cell body w/ the nucleus and most of the cytoplasm, and cellular processes that extend from the cell body. They are considered excitable cells b/c they can generate signals called action potentials along the neuron to another neuron or a muscle or gland.
What are neuroglia
(glial cells) are more abundant than neurons; they cannot conduct nerve impulses, but they have important supportive and protective functions for neurons.
Extracellular matrix
Varies in quantity depending on the specific tissue type and is like a filler material between the cells. The cells produce and secrete two components of the extracellular matrix known as the ground substance and fibers.
Ground Substance
Located in the ECM, it varies from a liquid to semisolid to solid, and has functions in support and as a medium for substances to move between cells and blood vessels.
Fibers
Located in the ECM, consist of fibrous proteins including collagen, reticular, and elastic fibers.
Collagen
Fibers that are thick threads, the most abundant fiber and are white in unstained tissues.
Reticular
Fibers are fine threads of highly branched collagen w/ glycoprotein.
Elastic Fibers
form complex networks of a highly branched protein called elastin, which is springlike and appears yellowish in unstained tissues.
What do fibers do?
Provide the binding properties w/in the tissue and between organs. You could compare connective tissue to making gelatin; the gelatin of various densities represents the ground substance, added fruit represents cells, and added strands represent the fibers.
Areolar Connective
Description: Cells in abundant fluid gel matrix; loose arrangement of collagen and elastic fibers
Function: Loosely binds organs, holds tissue fluids
Adipose
Description: Cells in sparse fluid-gel matrix; closely packed cells
Functions: Protects; insulates; stores fat
Reticular Connective
Description: Cells in fluid-gel matrix; reticular fibers
Function: Supportive framework of organs
Dense regular connective
Description: Cells in fluid-gel matrix; parallel, wavy collagen fibers
Function: Tightly binds body parts
Dense Irregular Connective
Description: Cells in fluid-gel matrix; random collagen fibers
Function: Sustains tissue tension; durable
Elastic Connective
Description: Cells in fluid-gel matrix; collagen fibers densely packed; branched elastic fibers
Function: Provides elastic quality
Hyaline Cartilage
Description: Cells in firm solid-gel matrix; fine network of collagen fibers; appears glassy
Function: Supports; protects; provides framework
Fibrocartilage
Description: Cells in firm solid-gel matrix; abundant collagen fibers
Function: Supports;protects; absorbs shock
Elastic Cartilage
Description:Cells in firm solid-gel matrix; weblike elastic fibers
Function: Supports; protects; provides flexible framework
Bone
Description: Cells in solid matrix; many collagen fibers
Function: Supports; protects; provides framework
Blood
Description: Cells in platelets in fluid matrix called plasma
Function: Transports nutrients, wastes, and gases; defends against disease; clotting
Location of Areolar Connective (loose connective)?
Around body organs; binds skin to deeper organs
Location of Adipose (loose connective)?
Hypodermis (subcutaneous layer); around the kidneys and heart; yellow bone marrow; breasts
Location of Reticular Connective (loose connective)?
Spleen; thymus; lymph nodes; red bone marrow
Location of Dense Regular Connective (dense)?
Tendons; ligaments
Location of Dense Irregular Connective (dense)?
Dermis; heart valves; periosteum on bone
Location of Elastic Connective (dense)?
Larger artery walls; vocal cords; some ligaments between vertebrae
Location of Hyaline Cartilage?
Nasal septum; larynx; costal cartilage; ends of lone bones; fetal skeleton
Location of Fibrocartilage?
Between vertebrae; between pubic bones; pads (meniscus) in knee
Location of Elastic Cartilage?
Outer ear; epiglottis
Location of compact bone?
Bone shafts; beneath periosteum
Location of blood (liquid connective)?
lumens of blood vessels; heart chambers
Location of lymph (liquid connective)?
Lumens of lymphatic vessels
Simple Squamous Epithelium
Description: single thin layer; flattened cells
Function: diffusion; osmosis; secretion
Location: Air sacs (alveoli) of lungs walls of capillaries; linings of blood vessels and ventral body cavity
Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
Description: Single layer; cube-shaped cells
Functions: Secretion; absorption
Location: Surface of ovaries; linings of kidney tubules; linings of ducts of certain glands
Simple Columnar Epithelium
Description: Single layer; elongated narrow cells; some ciliated
Functions: Protection; secretion; absorption
Location: Linings of uterus, stomach, gallbladder, and intestines.
Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Description: Single layer; elongated cells; some cells do not reach free surface; often ciliated
Functions: Protection; secretions; movement of mucus and substances
Locations: linings of respiratory passages
Stratified squamous epithelium
Description: Many layers; top cells flattened; keratinized surface cells of epidermis
Functions: Protection; resists abrasion
Locations: Epidermis of skin; linings of oral cavity, esophagus, vagina, and anal canal
Stratified cuboidal epithelium
Description: 2-3 layers; cube-shaped cells
Functions: Protection; secretion
Location: Linings of larger ducts of mammary glands, sweat glands, salivary glands, and pancreas
Stratified columnar epithelium
Description: Superficial layer of elongated cells; basal layers of cube-shaped cells
Functions: Protection; secretion
Location: Part of the male urethra; parts of the pharynx
Transitional epithelium
Description: Many layers; cube-shaped and elongated cells; thinner layers when stretched
Functions: Distensibility; protection
Location: Linings of urinary bladder and ureters and part of urethra
What is Histology?
The study of tissues
What are the four major types of tissues?
- ) Epithelial-covers the body’s external and internal surfaces and most glands.
- ) Connective-binds and supports parts
- ) Muscle-make movement possible
- ) Nervous-conduct impulses from one part of the body to another and help control and coordinate body activities.
What is bone composed of?
- ) bone tissue
- ) cartilage
- ) blood
- ) nervous tissue
What is the total human skeletal number?
207
During embryonic and fetal development much of the supportive tissue is cartilage? T or F?
True
Location of articular cartilage?
1.) Movable joints
Location of costal cartilage?
1.) Connects the ribs to the sternum
Location of hyaline cartilage?
- ) Composes the articular cartilage
2. ) Composes the costal cartilage
Location of fibrocartilage?
1.) Between vertebrae
Osteon
- ) cylinder-shaped units of compact bone structure
2. ) contain central canal (includes blood vessels & nerves in living bone
Location of osteocytes (cells)?
- ) concentric circles w/in lacunae (small space)
- ) Pass through canaliculi (allows for transport of nutrients/waste between cells and central canal
- ) Extracellular waste occupies most of the area of an osteon
Where are osteocytes located at in spongy bone?
1.) w/in a lattice of bony plates called trabeculae
A function of canaliculi?
1.) allows for diffusion of substances b/tween cells and marrow that is positioned b/tween the trabeculae
Long (bone)
- ) femur
- ) humerus
- ) phalanges
Short (bone)
- ) carpals
2. ) tarsals
Flat (bone)
- ) ribs
- ) scapula
- ) most cranial bones
Irregular (bone)
- ) vertebra
2. ) some facial bones as sphenoid
Sesamoid (round bone)
1.) patella
Osteon
1.) cylinder-shaped unit
Central canal (Haversian canal; osteonic canal)
1.) contains blood vessels and nerves
Lamella
1.) concentric ring of matrix around central canal
Lacuna
1.) small chamber for an osteocyte
Bone extracellular matrix
1.) collagen and calcium phosphate
Canaliculus
1.) minute tube containing cellular process
Epiphysis
- ) proximal-nearest torso
2. ) distal-farthest from torso
Epiphyseal plate
1.) growth zone of hyaline cartilage
Articular cartilage
1.) on ends of epiphyses
Diaphysis
1.) shaft between epiphyses
Periosteum
- ) membrane around bone of dense irregular connective tissue.
- ) Not around articular cartilage
Compact (dense) bone
1.) forms diaphysis and epiphyseal surfaces
Spongy (cancellous) bone
1.) w/in epiphyses trabeculae (structural lattice of plates in spongy bone
Medullary (marrow) cavity
1.) hollow chamber