Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Four types of tissue

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Epithelial
Connective
Muscular
Nervous

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Epithelial tissue

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Covers body’s surface, lines hollow organs/cavities, forms glands

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Connective tissue

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Protects/supports body/organs, stores energy (fats), immunity to disease

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Muscular tissue

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Cells specialized for contraction/force, generates heat

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Nervous

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Detects changes, generates electrical signals, activates muscular contractions/secretions

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Five types of cell junctions

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Right
Adherents
Desosomes
Hemidesosomes
Gap

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Tight junctions

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Fuse outer surface of membranes together to seal of passageway between cells=prevents leakage (stomach, intestines, urinary bladder)

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Adheren junctions

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Plaque on inside of planes membrane attaching to members proteins and microfilaments, helps epithelial resist separation during contraction

Cadherens: transmembrane proteins joining cells
Adhesion belts: extensive zones of adherens

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Desosomes

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Contains plaque, cadherens extend into ICF, attach cells, don’t attach to microfilaments but instead intermediate filaments

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Hemidesosomes

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Like Desosomes but integrity’s instead of cadherins, attach to laminin (proteins) present in basement membrane

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Gap junctions

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Connexins (tiny tube tunnels) for rapid diffusion

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Epithelial vs connective

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Tightly packed cells, little matrix, no BV, almost always surface layer (except BV where blood passes over)

Cells widely scattered lots of matrix, has BV

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General features of epithelial tissue

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Cells in continuous sheets single or multiple layer
Various surfaces have different structures/functions
Own nerve supply
Avascular
High rate of cell division

Function: protects secretes absorbs excretes

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Simple squamous (two types)

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Flat single layer of cells

Found:
Endothelium: lines cardiovascular/lymphatic system
Mesothelium: epithelial layer of serous membranes

Function: filtrations/diffusion or secretion of serous membranes, not subject to wear and tear

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Simple cuboidal

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Cube single layer

Found: surface of ovary, anterior lens of eye, pigment of retina, lines kidney tubules/smaller ducts of glands, secreting portion of glands

Function: secretion/absorption

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Nonciliated simple columnar

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Single layer columnar cells, microvilli, goblet cells

Found: lines GI, ducts of glands, gallbladder

higher secretion/absorption, secreted mucus lines respiratory/reproductive/digestive tract, prevents destruction of stomach lining

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Ciliates simple columnar

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Single layer columnar, cilia, goblet cells

Found: bronchiales, fallopian tubes, sinuses, central spinal cord

Function: move mucus to be coughed up, move oocytes from ovaries

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Nonciliated pseudostratified columnar

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Different levels of nuclei, not all cells reach surface, no goblet/cilia

Found: lines epididymis, larger ducts of glands, make urethra

Function: absorption/secretion

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Ciliated pseudostratified columnar

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Goblet cells and cilia

Found: lines airways of most upper respiratory tract

Function: secreted mucus, traps foreign particles cilia swell away

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Stratified squamous

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Many layers of cells top is flat

Found:
Keratinized: superficial layer of skin
Non keratinized: lines wet surface/tongue

Function: protection against abrasion, UV, water loss, foreign invasion

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Stratified cuboidal

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Fairly rare

Found: ducts of adult sweat/esophageal glands, male urethra

Function: protection, limited secretion/absorption

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Stratified columnar

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Uncommon

Found: urethra, large ducts of glands, anus mucous membrane, parts of eye

Function: protection/secretion

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Transitional

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Relaxed=stratified cuboidal stretched=stratified squamous

Found: lines urinary bladder, ureter/urethra

Function: stretch without rupturing, maintain protective lining

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Endocrine glands

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Secretions enter interstitial fluid then bloodstream, no duct

Found: pituitary, pineal, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, ovaries, tested, thymus

Function: hormones regulate metabolic/physiological a activities

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Exocrine glands

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Release into ducts onto surface epithelium

Found: sweat, oil, ear was glands of skin, digestive glands, pancreas

Function: produce substances, sweat oil earwax saliva digestive enzymes

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Exocrine glands shapes

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Simple: doesn’t branch
Compound: branches

Tubular: tubular
Acinar: rounded
Tubuloacinar: both

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Exocrine gland types of secretion

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Merocrine: released from cell in secretory vesicles via Exocytosis

Apocrine: portion of cell lunches off via Exocytosis

Holocrine: whole cell ruptures

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General feature of connective tissue

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Most abundant
Lots of extra cellular matrix
Vascular (except catilage=none, tendons=little)
Not usually on body surfaces
Nerves (except cartilage)

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Cells in connective tissue

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Fibroblasts
Macrophages
Plasma cells
Mast cells
Adipocytes
Leukocytes

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Fibroblasts

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Large, flat, branching cells
In general connective tissue

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Macrophages

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Phagocytes
Fixed reside in particular tissue
Wandering move through tissue to gather at sites of inflammation/infection

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Plasma cells

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All over body, mostly connective tissue, especially GI/respiratory tracts

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Mast cells

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Involved in inflammatory response, bind/ingest/kill bacteria

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Adipocytes

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Fat cells store triglycerides
Deep to skin/around organs

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Leukocytes

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WBC
Migrate from blood to connective tissue for different responses

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Ground substance structure/function

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Can be fluid, semi fluid, gelatinous, calcified
Supports/binds cells, stores water, medium for exchange between blood/cells

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Hyaluronic acid

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Viscous slippery substance
Bind cells, lubricates joints, maintains shape of eyeballs

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Fibers in connective tissue

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Collagen: strong, rests pulling/stretching, not stiff, found in most connective tissues (esp. bone cartilage ligaments tendons(

Elastic: strong, stretch 150%, return to normal shape (esp. skin, BV walls, lung tissue)

Reticular: support/strength/form basement membrane, helps form stroma

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Stroma

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Supporting framework of organs

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Embryonic tissue types

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Mesenchyme
Mucous connective tissue

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Mesenchyme

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Irregular shaped cells in semi fluid ground substance, reticular divers

Found: under skin/along bones of embryo, some adult esp. BV

Function: form almost all other types of connective tissue

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Mucous connective tissue

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Widely scattered fibroblasts, jelly-like ground substance, collagen fibres

Found: umbilical cord

Function: support

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Proper loose connective tissue types

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Fibers loosely arranged

Areolar connective tissue
Adispose tissue
Reticular connective tissue

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Areolar connective tissue

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Widely distributed, 3 fibers, many cells, semi fluid

Found: in/around every body structure, subcutaneous layer, superficial dermis, lamina propria, BV, nerves, organs

Function: strength, elasticity, support

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Adipose tissue

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Cels fill with droplet of tryglyceride, BAT found mostly in fetus/infant

Found: Areolar tissue, heart/kidneys, yellow bone marrow, joints, eye

Function: reduced heat loss, energy reserve, supports/protects organs, stem cells

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Reticular connective tissue

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Interlacing network of reticular fibers/cells

Found: stroma of liver spleen lymph nodes, red bone marrow, reticular lamina, around BV/muscles

Function: forms stroma, binds cells, filters/removes worn out blood cells in spleen/microbes in lymph nodes

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Proper dense connective tissue types

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More fibers densely packed

Dense regular connective tissue
Dense irregular connective tissue
Elastic connective tissue

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Dense regular connective tissue

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Shiny white extracellular mix, collagen rows with fibroblasts between

Found: tendons, ligaments, aponeuroses

Function: strong attachment between structures, withstands pulling

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Dense irregular connective tissue

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Collagen fibers irregularly arranged with fibroblasts

Found: in sheets fascia, reticular dermis, pericardium, perichondrium, cartilage, joint/membrane capsules, heart valves

Function: provides tensile (pulling) strength

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Elastic connective tissue

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Elastic fibers with fibroblasts, yellowish

Found: lung tissue, walls of elastic arteries, teachea, bronchial tubes, vocal cords, suspensory ligaments of penis, some ligament of vertebrae

Function: stretching of organs, strong can recoil to og shape (lung tissue, elastic arteries)

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Cartilage types

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Hyaline
Fibrocartilage
Elastic cartilage

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Hyaline cartilage

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Bluish white, shiny chondrocytes found in lacunae surrounded by perichondrium

Found: most abundant in body, long bones, ribs, nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchial tubes, embryonic/fetal skeleton

Function: smooth surfaces for movement at joint, flexibility/support, weak (can be fractured)

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Fibrocartilage

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Chondrocytes collagen fibers no perichondrium

Found: pubic symphysis, cerebral discs, knee, tendons

Function. Support/joining structures, strength/rigidity=strongest

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Elastic cartilage

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Chondrocytes elastic fibers perichondrium

Found: epiglottis, external ear, auditory tubes

Function: strength/elasticity, maintain shape

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Bone tissue

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Compact: osteons containing lamellae, lacunae, oesteocytes, central canal

Spongy: trabeculae, red bone marrow

Function: support protection storage house blood forming tissues enables movement

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Blood

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Blood plasma formed elements (RBC,WBC, platelets)

Found: BV heart

Function: RBC (transport o2/co2) WBC (phagocytosis, allergic response, immune) platelets (blood clotting)

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Types of membranes

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Epithelial membrane
-mucous membrane:lines body cavity open to exterior, tight junctions
-serous membrane: body cavity not open to exterior, Areolar tissue, simple squamous (mesothelium), secretes serous fluid
-cutaneous membrane: skin, keratinized stratified squamous, Areolar/irregular connective tissue

Synovial membrane: joining cavities, no epithelium, synoviocytes, secrets synovial fluid

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Define membrane

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Flat sheets of pliable tissue that cover/line a part of the body

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Classification of membranes

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Opens to exterior or not
Epithelial or not

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General features of muscular tissue

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Elongated cells called muscle fibers or myocytes
Use ATP to generate force

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Skeletal muscle tissue

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Long cylindrical striated fibers (alternating light dark bands) nucleus at periphery

Voluntary

Found: attached to bones by tendons

Function; motion posture heat production protection

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Cardiac muscle tissue

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Branches striated fibers, central nucleus, intercalated discs, Desosomes, gap junctions

Involuntary

Found: heart wall

Function: pump blood

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Smooth muscle tissue

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Non striated fibers, central nucleus

Involuntary

Found: iris, walls of hollow internal structures (BV, stomach intestines etc)

Function: motion (construction of BV contractor of bladders)

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Structure/function of nervous tissue

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Neurons: nerve cells, sensitive to stimuli, convert it to electrical signals called nerve action potentials, conducted to neuron, muscle tissue or glands
-cell body: contains nucleus/organelles
-dendrites: receiving/input section,branched
-axons: output, long thin conducts nerve impulses

Neuroglia: doesn’t generate nerve impulses has supporting functions

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Concept of electrical excitably

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Excitable cells: neurons muscle fibers
Electrical excitability: ability to respond to certain stimuli by producing electrical signals

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Basement membrane

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Thin extracellular membrane, attach/anchor epithelial/connective tissue, surface for wound healing, prevent passage of larger molecules, blood filtration in kidneys

Basal lamina: closer to epithelial cells
Reticular lamina: closer to connective tissue

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Chondrocytes

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Cells of mature cartilage

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Lacunae

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Spaces filled with chondrocytes

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Perichondrium

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Dense irregular connective tissue
Membrane covering cartilage

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Interstitial growth

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Growth from within tissue (childhood/adolescence)

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Appositional growth

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Growth at the outer surface of the tissue (adolescence/adulthood)

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Lamellae

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Rings of extracellular matrix with mineral salts/collagen fibers

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Lacunae

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Small spaces between lamellae containing osteocytes

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Canaliculi

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Project from lacunae proving nutrient/waste routes

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Central canal

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BV and nerves