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Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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Where is the endothelium?

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  • Lining of the lymphatic /blood vessels, and heart
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Where is the nervous tissue found?

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  • Brain
  • spinal cord
  • nerves
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Stratified cuboidal epithelium - location and function,

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  • Two cell layers thick
  • protection
  • sweat and mammary glands
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4
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What is the function of the nervous tissue?

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Controls ; internal communication

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Where is the mesothelium?

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  • epithelium of serous membrane in the ventral body cavity
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Bottom of a surface is?

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Basal

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Simple squamous epithelium - location and function

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  • Single layer of cells
  • Kidney and lungs
  • Endothelium
  • Mesothelium
  • materials pass by diffusion and filtration in sites; secretes lubricating substances in serosse
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What are the two names epithelial tissue have?

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  • Simple
  • Stratified
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9
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Where are connective tissues found?

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  • Bones
  • tendons
  • fat
    -Blood
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10
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Flattened and scalelike?

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Squamous cells

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Where are the two types of epithelial tissues?

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  • cover and lining of epithelia
    •respiratory, digestive, and urogenital tract
  • glandular epithelia
    • glands (endocrine)
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Stratified columnar epithelium- location and function

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  • Only apical layer columnar
  • Protection
  • pharynx, male urethra, and lining some glandular ducts
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13
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Where is the muscle tissue found?

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  • Attached to bones (skeletal)
  • heart (cardiac)
  • walls of hollow organs (smooth)
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14
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Where are epithelial tissues found?

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-Lining of digestive tract organs
- epidermis

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What is the most common epithelium?

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Stratified squamous epithelium

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Stratified squamous epithelial – location and function

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  • Two or more cell layers
  • Protects from wear and tear
  • Epidermis and esophagus
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Pseudostratified columnar epithelium - location and function

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  • Cells vary in height ; appears stratified but is not
  • secretes mucus and absorbs
  • trachea
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Simple columnar epithelium- location and function

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  • Single layer of tall, close packed cells
  • secrete and absorb
  • digestive tract
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What is the function of Epithelial tissue?

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Covers, protects, secretes, absorbs, filters, excretion, and sensory reception

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Top of a surface is?

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Apical

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21
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What is the function of Connective tissue?

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Supports, protects, insulates, stores reserve fuel, transports substances and binds other tissues together

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Tall and column shaped ; nucleus elongated

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Columnar cell

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What are the 5 characteristics of Epithelial Tissues?

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  1. Polarity
  2. Specialized contacts
  3. Supported by connective tissues
  4. Avascular but innervated
  5. Can regenerate rapidly
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What are the shapes of epithelial tissues?

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  • Squamous
    -Cuboidal
  • Columnar
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Boxlike and nucleus round?

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Cuboidal cell

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26
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Muscle tissue

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Produces movement

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27
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Simple cuboidal epithelium - location and function

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  • Single layer of cells
  • secrete and absorb
  • kidney tubules
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Transitional epithelium - location and function

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  • Apical/basal layered cells
  • Stretch
  • Lining of in urinary organs
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What is a gland?

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One or more cells that make and secrete a particular product.

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30
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What is secretion?

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Aqueous fluid that includes protein

31
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What kind of glands internally secrete?

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Endocrine glands

32
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Where do endocrine gland secrete their hormones?

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Lymph or blood to specific organs.

33
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What kind of glands externally secrete?

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Exocrine glands

34
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Where are exocrine glands secretions released?

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Onto body surfaces or into body cavities ;
into ducts
Ex. Mucous, sweat, oil, and salivary glands

35
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What are the 4 main classes of connective tissues?

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  1. Connective tissue proper
  2. Cartilage
  3. Bone
  4. Blood
36
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What are the 3 characteristics of connective tissue?

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  1. Have mesenchyme
  2. Varying degrees of vascularity
  3. Have extracellular matrix
37
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Mesenchyme is?

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Embryonic tissue

38
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Extracellular matrix is?

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  • Separates cells
  • Nonliving
39
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What are the 3 elements all connective tissue must have?

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  1. Ground substance
  2. Fibers
  3. Cells
40
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What is ground substance?

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Fills the space between the cells and contains fibers

41
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What is considered the connective tissue glue?

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Cell Adhesion Proteins

42
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What are the 3 Connective tissue fibers?

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  1. Collagen
  2. Elastic fibers
  3. Reticular
43
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Collagen

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  • Strongest and most abundant
  • Tough ; provides high tensile strength
44
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Elastic fibers

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  • Elastin: allow for stretch/recoil
  • Long and thin
45
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Reticular fibers

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  • short, fine, highly branched collagenous fibers
46
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What cells are specific to connective tissue proper?

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  1. Fibroblast
47
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What cells are specific to cartilage?

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  1. Chondroblasts
  2. Chondrocytes
48
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What cells are specific to bones?

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  1. Osteoblast
    2.Osteocytes
49
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What connective tissue cell stores nutrients?

50
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What connective tissue cell responds to injury?

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White blood cells

51
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3 examples of WBC

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  1. Neutrophils
  2. Eosinophils
  3. Lymphocytes
52
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What connective tissue cell initiates local inflammatory responses?

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Mast cells

53
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What do mast cells secrete?

54
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What connective tissue cell is considered phagocytic and eats dead cells?

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Macrophages

55
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What are 2 characteristics of cartilage?

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  1. Lacks nerve fibers
  2. Avascular
56
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What are the 3 types of cartilage

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  1. Hyaline
  2. Elastic
  3. Fibrocartilage
    * different fibers in each cartilage
57
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Hyaline cartilage - location an function

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  • Support and reinforces
  • costal cartilage of the ribs
58
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Elastic cartilage- location and function

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  • Maintains the shape of structure/flexibility
  • ear/epiglottis
59
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Fibrocartilage- location and function

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-Tensile strength
- intervertebral discs

60
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What is another name for bone?

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Osseous tissue

61
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Bone ( osseous tissue) - location and function

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  • Supports and protects body structures
  • stores fat and synthesizes blood cells in cavities
  • bones
62
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Blood - location and function

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  • Transport respiratory gases nutrients, wastes, and other substances
  • Located within blood vessels
63
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How is blood a connective tissue?

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Arrives from mesenchymal tissue and has a nonliving fluid matrix

64
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What are the 2 characteristics of Muscle tissue?

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  1. Highly vascularized
  2. Responsible for most type of movement
65
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What are the 3 muscle tissues?

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  1. Skeletal
  2. Cardiac
  3. Smooth
66
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What is unique about skeletal muscle? How does it look?

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Voluntary
Long, cylindrical multinucleate cells

67
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What is unique about cardiac muscle? How does it look?

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Involuntary
Branched, striated, uninucleate cells

68
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What is unique about smooth muscle tissue? How does it look?

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Involuntary
Spindle shaped cells with central nuclei, no striations

69
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What is the nervous system composed of?

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  1. Neurons
  2. Neurolgia
70
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What do neurons do?

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Generate and conduct nerve impulses
* apart of neuron cell (long axon)

71
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What do neurolgia do?

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Support, insulate, and protect neurons

72
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Which tissue regenerates extremely well?

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Epithelial tissues

73
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Which tissue regenerates at moderate capacity?

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Smooth muscle

74
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Which tissue has virtually no regenerative capacity?

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nervous tissue

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