Chapter 3 (Notes) Flashcards
Epithelial tissue
This tissue covers the body’s external surface (skin) and the linings body cavities (mouth, ears, nose, and throat)
Connective tissue
This tissue provides support, store energy and connects other tissues and parts. (Bone, fat, blood, and cartilage.
Muscular tissue
This tissue shortens as it contracts. When attached to bone, these contractions make body movement possible.
Nervous tissue
This tissue is located throughout the body. When stimulated, nervous tissue carries messages back and forth between the brain and every part of the body.
Gliding Joints
Allow the head to lower as the vertebrae (bones in the spinal column) of the neck slide over one another.
Ball and socket joints
Allow movements like swimming one’s arm around in a circle.
Pivot joints
Allow a turning motion, such as palm of the hand rotating from up to down when a bone rotates on another ring-shaped bone.
Hinge joints
Allow backward and forward bending motions, like a door hinge (Knees, Knuckles, elbows)
Hip pinning
Stablizing broken hip bones with surgical screws, nails, rods, or plates. Also known as internal fixation
Trigger finger release (stenosing tenosynovitis)
Making a small incision in the palm, then cutting the tendon sheath tunnel to widen it and allow the tendon to slide through it more easily.
Tibial osteotomy
A procedure to realign the knee by wedging open the upper shin bone (tibia) to reconfigure the knee joint. The weight-bearing part of the knee is shifted from the degenerative or worn tissue onto healthier tissue
Smooth muscles
Thin, flat, sheets of tissue. Involuntary or visceral muscles because contract and function without our conscious control.
Fasciotomy
Making an incision into the fibrous membrane covering a muscle, usually to relieve pressure from an injured or swollen muscle.
