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Withstand pressure due to thick collagen fibers

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Fibro Cartilage

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Example of fibro cartilage

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Knee joints

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Comprised of 4 layers, everywhere else but your feet and arms

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Thin skin

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Example of hyaline cartilage

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nose

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Knee joints

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Example of fibro cartilage

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Glial Cells

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Provides support, insulation, and protection to neurons

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Polar

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Distinct sides

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Normal collagen fibers

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Reticular Fibers

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Focuses light on the retina

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Lens

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What bones are made out of

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Calcium Phosphate

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Osteons

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Cylindrical units that make up bone

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Myofibrils

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Long cylindrical cells in skeletal muscle

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Endocrine Glands

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Secretes hormones into bloodstreams or nearby areas

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Detects sound waves and pressure

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Mechanoreceptors

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Epiphysis

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Ends of a bone

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Cells that secrete fibers in connective tissue

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Blast Cells

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Macrophage

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Cells in your connective tissue that eat bacteria

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Thick skin

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Bottom of your feet and hands, comprised of 5 layers

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Hormones that can be received inside of a cell

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Lipid Soluble Hormones

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Proper connective tissue with fewer fibers and more cells

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Loose Proper Connective Tissue

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Secretes juices to ducts or tubes that lead outside the body or directly leads into an organ

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Exocrine Glands

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Hold all the blood and nerve endings in a bone

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Central Canals

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Mechanoreceptors

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Detects sound waves and pressure

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Example of product of exocrine glands

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Sweat, saliva, mucus

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White connective tissue surrounding the outside of the eyeball

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Sclera

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Chondroblasts

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Cartilage blast cells

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Bone blast cells

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Osteoblasts

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Sclera

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White connective tissue surrounding the outside of the eyeball

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Diaphysis

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Middle of a bone

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Photoreceptors

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Detect light

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Fat tissue

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Adipose Tissue

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Calcium Phosphate

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What bones are made out of

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Reticular Fibers

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Normal collagen fibers

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Osteoblasts

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Bone blast cells

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Exocrine Glands

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Secretes juices to ducts or tubes that lead outside the body or directly leads into an organ

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What type of glands secrete hormones into bloodstreams or nearby areas

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Endocrine Glands

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Apical side

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Side facing up, in this case it would be the side facing the inside of your body or the outside of your body depending on where the cell is

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Basement Membrane

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Thin layer of collagen that holds epithelium together throughout the body

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Chemoreceptors

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Detects molecules

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40
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Gaseous state that enables us to smell

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Volatile

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Adipose Tissue

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Fat tissue

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Leukocytes

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White blood cells, immune system

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Detect light

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Photoreceptors

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Lumps that make your tongue rough

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Papillae

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Long cylindrical cells in skeletal muscle

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Myofibrils

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Water soluble hormones

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Hormones that have to be received by special receptors in the cell membrane

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Balance of materials and energy that keep you alive

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Homeostasis

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Central Canals

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Hold all the blood and nerve endings in a bone

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Bottom of your feet and hands, comprised of 5 layers

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Thick skin

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Provides support, insulation, and protection to neurons

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Glial Cells

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Transduction

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Translation of chemical, electro magnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potential

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Hyaline, elastic, fibro

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Types of cartilage

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Areolar Tissue

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Loose tissue that has a lot of open space that is able to hold water and liquid

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Side facing up, in this case it would be the side facing the inside of your body or the outside of your body depending on where the cell is

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Apical side

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Translation of chemical, electro magnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potential

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Transduction

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Thin layer of collagen that holds epithelium together throughout the body

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Basement Membrane

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Most common, glassy looking

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Hyaline Cartilage

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Red blood cells transport blood and oxygen

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Erythrocytes

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Loose tissue that has a lot of open space that is able to hold water and liquid

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Areolar Tissue

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Bottom side of a cell facing towards a basement membrane

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Basal Side

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Cartilage blast cells

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Chondroblasts

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Cylindrical units that make up bone

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Osteons

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Elastic Cartilage

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Same as hyaline, but much more elastic

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Ground substance of blood tissue

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Blood plasma

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Hormones that have to be received by special receptors in the cell membrane

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Water soluble hormones

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Lens

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Focuses light on the retina

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Loose Proper Connective Tissue

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Proper connective tissue with fewer fibers and more cells

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Same as hyaline, but much more elastic

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Elastic Cartilage

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Ground Substance

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Fills spaces between cells, flexible, made of starch and protein and water

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Reticular tissue

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Provides a network for liver, spleen, and bone marrow

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Papillae

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Lumps that make your tongue rough

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Detects molecules

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Chemoreceptors

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Pupil

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Opening in iris that opens and closes to allow light to go through

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Erythrocytes

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Red blood cells transport blood and oxygen

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Form a branching framework, made of flexible elastin, found in skin and blood vessel walls

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Elastic Fibers

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Basal Side

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Bottom side of a cell facing towards a basement membrane

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Hyaline Cartilage

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Most common, glassy looking

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Opening in iris that opens and closes to allow light to go through

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Pupil

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Extracellular Matrix

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Matrix of cells that don’t move

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Cells in your connective tissue that eat bacteria

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Macrophage

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Lipid Soluble Hormones

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Hormones that can be received inside of a cell

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Matrix of cells that don’t move

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Extracellular Matrix

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Platelets

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Makes blood clot by having dissolved proteins solidify and become a matrix

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Ends of a bone

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Epiphysis

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Ear

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Example of elastic cartilage

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Blood plasma

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Ground substance of blood tissue

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What do blast cells turn into

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They turn into cells that maintain the matrix that they just created, and they can revert back at any time

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Sweat, saliva, mucus

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Example of product of exocrine glands

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Distinct sides

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Polar

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Thin skin

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Comprised of 4 layers, everywhere else but your feet and arms

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Fibro Cartilage

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Withstand pressure due to thick collagen fibers

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Nose

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Example of hyaline cartilage

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Volatile

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Gaseous state that enables us to smell

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Blast Cells

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Cells that secrete fibers in connective tissue

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Fills spaces between cells, flexible, made of starch and protein and water

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Ground Substance

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Marfan Syndrome

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Genetic disorder of connective tissue that weakens tissue over time

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Homeostasis

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Balance of materials and energy that keep you alive

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Example of elastic cartilage

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Ear

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Types of cartilage

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Hyaline, elastic, fibro

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Platelets

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Makes blood clot by having dissolved proteins solidify and become a matrix

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Middle of a bone

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Diaphysis

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Elastic Fibers

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Form a branching framework, made of flexible elastin, found in skin and blood vessel walls

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Genetic disorder of connective tissue that weakens tissue over time

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Marfan Syndrome

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White blood cells, immune system

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Leukocytes

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