Chapter 4-Skin and Body Membranes Flashcards
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Cover surfaces, line body cavities, and form protective (and often lubricating) sheets around organs.
Body membranes
Two major groups of body membranes
Epithelial membranes and connective tissue membrane
These includes the cutaneous, mucous, and serous membrane. This is also called as the covering and lining membrane.
Epithelial membrane
This is represented by synovial membranes
Connective tissue membrane
It is exposed to air and is a dry membrane
Cutaneous membrane
Composed of stratified squamous epithelium
Superficial epidermis
It is mostly dense (fibrous) connective tissue.
Dermis
It is composed of epithelium resting on a loose connective tissue membrane
Mucous membrane (mucosa)
A loose connective tissue membrane where one of the membrane rests
Lamina propria
This membrane type lines all body cavities that open to the exterior such as the respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts.
Mucous membrane
They are moist membranes that are almost continuously bathed in secretions.
Mucous membrane
It is also called as serosa, and is conposed of a layer of simple squamous epithelium resting on a thin layer of areolar connective tissue
Serous membrane
These line the body cavities that are closed to the exterior
Serius membrane
It lines a specific portion of the wall of the ventral body cavity.
Parietal layer
It covers the outside of the organs in that cavity.
Visceral layer
These separated by a scanty amount of thin, clear fluid
Serous fluid
That lines the abdominal cavity and covering the organs
Peritoneum
Surrounding the lungs
Pleura
Around the heart
Pericardia
Composed of loose areolar connective tissue and contain no epithelial cells at all.
Synovial membrane
These membranes line the fibrous capsules surrounding joints where the provide a smooth surface and secrete a lubricating fluid
Synovial membrane
Small sacs of connective tissue
Bursae
Tubelike of connective tissue
Tendon sheaths
Functions of integumentary system
Mechanical damage (bumps and scars) Chemical damage (acids and bases) Bacterial damage (microbes) Ultraviolet radiation (damaging effects of sunlight) Thermal (heat or cold) damage Desiccation (drying out) Aids in body heat loss or heat retention (controlled by the nervous system) Aids in excretion of urea and uric acid Synthesizes vitamin D