Chapter 4 Anatomy Flashcards
Epithelial Tissue
Found: Skin surface, lining if GI tract organs and other hallow organs
Function: forms boundaries between different environments, protects, secretes,absorbs, filters
Connective Tissue
Found: Bones, tendons, fat and other tissues together
Function: supports, protects, binds other tissues together
Muscle Tissue
Found: muscles attached to bones (skeletal), muscles of heart (cardiac), muscles of walls of hollow organs (smooth).
Function: contracts to cause movement
Nervous Tissue
Found: Brain, spinal cord, and nervous
Function: internal communications
Simple squamous epithelium
Found: Kidney glomeruli, air sacs of lungs, lining of heart, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels, lining of ventral body cavity.
Functions:Allow materials to pass by diffusion and filtration in sites where protections not important secretes lubricating substances in serosae.
Simple cuboidal epithelium
Found: Kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands; ovary surface
Function: Secretion and absorption
Simple columnar epithelium
Found: conciliated types lines most of the digestive tract, gallbladder, and excretory ducts of some glands. Ciliated variety lines small bronchi, uterine tubes, and some regions of the uterus.
Function:absorption, secretion of mucus, enzymes, and other substances; ciliated type propels mucus by ciliary action.
Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Found: Trachea most upper respiratory tract
Function: secretes substances, particularly mucus; propulsion of mucus by ciliary action.
Stratified squamous epithelium
Found: moist lining of esophagus, mouth and vagina
Function: protects underlying tissue in areas subjected to abrasion.
Transitional epithelium
Found: lines the ureters, bladder, and part of the urethra
Function: stretches readily, permits stored urine to distend urinary organ.
Endocrine glands
- ductless glands
- they produce hormones, messenger chemical that they secrete by exocytosis directly into the extracellular space.
Exocrine glands
- secrete their products into body surfaces(skin) or into body cavities.
- unicellular glands do so by exocytosis whereas the multicellular glands do so via an epithelium-walled duct that transports the secretion to the epithelial surface.
Simple glands
unbranched duct
Compound gland
branched duct
3 main types of secretion in human exocrine glands
merocrine, holocrine, or apocrine glands
Merocrine glands
secrete their products by exocytosis as they are produced.
example: pancreas, most sweat glands, and salivary glands belong to this class
Holocrine glands
accumulate their products within them until they rupture.
“die for their cause”
example: sebaceous oil glands
Apocrine glands
accumulate their products only beneath the free surface
example: the release of lipid droplets by lactating mammary glands, but most histologists classify mammary glands as merocrine glands because this is the means by which milk proteins are secreted.
Characteristics common to all connective tissue
common origin: they all derive from mesenchyme
degrees of vascularity: cartilage is avascular, dense connective tissue is poorly vascularized, and others have a rich supply of blood vessels.
Extracellular matrix: all other primary tissues are composed mainly of cells, but connective tissues are largely nonliving. because of this connective tissue can withstand great tension, and endure abuses, such as physical trauma and abrasion that no other tissue can tolerate.
Areolar connective tissue
Found: under Epithelium of body; forms lamina propia of mucus membranes, packages organs; surrounds capillaries.
Fibers: All three fibers
Adipose connective tissue
Found: under skin, in breast
Reticular connective tissue
Found: lymphoid organs such as the spleen
Fibers: reticular fibers
Dense regular connective tissue
Found: tendons, most ligaments, aponeuroses
Fibers: Primarily parallel collagen fibers, a few elastic fibers
Dense irregular connective tissue
Found: fibrous capsules of organs and of joints, dermis of the skin; submucosa of digestive tract
Fibers: Primarily irregularly arranged collagen fibers, some elastic fibers.