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Chapter 4 Flashcards

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  • secretory organ

- releases secretions into blood, cavity, or surface

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Gland

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Non-living chemical substances located between connective tissue cells

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Extracellular Matrix

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Fine network of cells or collagen fibers

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Reticular

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3
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Outermost layer of embryo

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Ectoderm

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4
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Cell shaped like a column

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Columnar

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Scale like, flat shaped cell

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Squamous

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Epithelium consisting of more than one layer of cells

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Stratified epithelium

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Firm, smooth, resilient, nonvascular, connective tissue

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Cartilage

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Mature cell of fibrous connective tissue

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Fibrocyte

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Produced by and lubricates serous membrane

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Serous fluid

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  • occurring in severe form
  • resistant to treatment
  • fatal
  • invasive and destructive growth
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Malignant

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11
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Study of neoplasms

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Oncology

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Ropelike protein of Extracellular matrix

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Collagen

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Entire cells are shed by the gland and become apart of secretion
(Sebaceous gland)

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Holocrine gland

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Glossy cartilage tissue consisting of cartilage cells and their matrix

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Hyaline cartilage

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Consists of a neuron cell body, axon & 2 or more dendrites

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Multipolar neuron

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Epithelium consisting of single layer of cells

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Simple epethilium

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Stratified epithelium. Either cuboidal or squamouslike depending on presence or absence of fluid in organ

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Transitional epithelium

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Thin plate

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Lamina

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Any swelling or growth

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Tumor

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Nerve cell body with single axon

pseudounipolar neuron

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Unipolar neuron

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Substitution of viable cells for damaged or dead cells by regeneration or replacement

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Tissue repair

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Disk-shaped regions of cell membrane found in stress areas.

  • adhesion between cells
  • cementing Extracellular material between cells
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Embryo giving rise to the brain and spinal cord

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Neuroectoderm

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Double-layered connective tissue surrounding cartilage

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Perichondrium

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Spongy bone

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Cancellous bone

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  • Yellow elastic fibrous mucoprotein

- Major connective tissue protein of elastic structures

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Dense bone with few spaces

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Compact bone

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Spindle-shaped cells that form connective tissue

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Fibroblast

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  • Central process of neuron

- Conducts action potentials away from the neuron cell body

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Small channel between cells that allows the passage of ions and small molecules between cells
(Intercellular communication)

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Gap junction

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Specialized Extracellular material located at the base of epithelial cells separating them from underlying connective tissues

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Basement membrane

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Cells contribute cytoplasm to its secretion

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Apocrine gland

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cube-like cell shape

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Mucous-producing epithelial cell

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Goblet cell

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Blood-forming tissue

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Hemopoietic tissue

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Mature cartilage cell

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Chondrocyte

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Secretes products with no loss of cellular material

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Merocrine gland

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Branching of neuron that receives stimuli and conducts potentials toward cell body

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Single layers of flattened cells forming an epithelium that lines serous cavities

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Mesothelium

40
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Gland that secretes to a surface through a duct

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Exocrine gland

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Consists of single layer of cells appearing to have multiple layers

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Pseudostratified epithelium

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half of a desmosome. Attaches epithelial cells to basement membrane

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Hemidesmosome

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Mature bone cell surrounded by bone matrix

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Osteocytes

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Middle germ layer of embryo

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Innermost layer of embryo

46
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Holds cells together. Controls what’s gets in and out

Permeability

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Tight junctions

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Holds cells together, weak glue

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Zonula adherens

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  • Junction between cells in which cell membranes may be fused
  • Blocks off space between cells
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Zonula Occludens

49
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  • consists of numerous polysaccharides attached to protein

- traps large amounts of water

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Proteoglycans

50
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Reproduction/reconstruction of injured part

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Regeneration

51
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Fibrous tissue replacing normal tissue

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