Chapter 3 Tissues

Question 1

What is the cutaneous membrane?

Answer 1

Skin, a dry membrane, outermost protective boundary, superficial epidermis(waterproof)

Question 2

What is the mucous membrane?

Answer 2

The membrane that lines body cavities that open to the exterior surface. Often adapted or absorbed.

Question 3

What is the serous membrane?

Answer 3

Lines body cavities closed to the exterior of the body, serous layers are separated by serous fluid; pleura, peritoneum, pericardium

Question 4

What is the connective tissue membrane?

Answer 4

Lines fibrous capsules surrounding joints, capsule filled with synovial fluid.

Question 5

Describe tissue repair.

Answer 5

Tissue repair is wound healing that occurs in two major ways. Regeneration is the replacement of destroyed tissue by the same kind of cells. Fibrosis involves repair by dense connective tissue by the formation of scar tissue. The 3 steps are the capillaries become very permeable, granulation tissue forms, and the surface epithelium regenerates.