Ch. 4 Membranes Flashcards

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Membrane

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Continuous multicellular sheets composed of epithelial + connective tissue proper.

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Cutaneous membrane

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Skin.

Dense Irregular

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Mucous membranes

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Cover all portals to the inside.
Produce mucus: wet membranes
Epithelial with mucus membrane. Lungs, nasal, bronchi. St. Sq.ep. Si. Col. Ep

Air is outside the world. Membrane lined with mucous membrane.

(Digestive hollow organs, respiratory, urogenital tracts )

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Serous membrane

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Line closes internal cavities and cover outside of organs

Produce slippery serous fluid

Thoracic
parietal pleura
Visceral pleura

Abdominopelvic
Parietal peritoneum
Visceral peritoneum

Pericardial
Parietal pericardium
Visceral pericardium

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Synovial connective tissue only

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Line the inside of freely movable joints

Produce synovial fluid

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