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Classification Of Tissues Flashcards

Tissue structure and function

1
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Lines body cavities and covers the body’s external surface

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Epithelium

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Pumps blood, flushes urine out of the body, allows one to swing a bat

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Muscle

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3
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Transmits electrochemical impulses

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Nervous Tissues

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4
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Anchors, packages, and supports body organs

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Connective Tissues

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5
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Cells may abosorbe, secrete, and filter

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Epithelium

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6
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Most involved in regulating and controlling body functions

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Nervous

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7
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Major function is to contract

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Muscle

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8
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synthesizes hormones

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Epithelium

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9
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The most durable tissue type

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Connective

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10
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Abundant nonliving extracellular matrix

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Connective

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11
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Most widespread tissue in the body

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Connective

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12
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Forms nerves and the brain

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Nervous

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13
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Lining of the esophagus

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Stratified Squamous

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14
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Lining of the stomatch

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Simple columnar

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15
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Alveolar sacs of lungs

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Simple squamous

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16
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Tubules of the kidney

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Simple cuboidal

17
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Epidermis of the skin

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Stratified squamous

18
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Lining of bladder: peculiar cells that have the ability to slide over eachother

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Transistional epithelium

19
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Forms thin serous membranes: a single layer of flatened cells.

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Simple squamous

20
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Attaches bones to bones and muncles to bones

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Connective Tissue

21
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Acts as storage depot for fat

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Adipose Tissue

22
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The dermis of the skin

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Dense Connective Tissue

23
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Makes up the invertebral discs

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Fibrocartilage

24
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Forms your hip bone

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Osseous Tissue

25
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Composes basement membranes: soft packaging tissue with jellylike matrix

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Areolar Connective Tissue

26
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Forms the larynx, the costal cartilages of the ribs, and the embryonic skeleton.

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Hyaline cartilage

27
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Provides a flexible framework for external ear

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Elastic Cartilage

28
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Firm, structurally amorphous matrix heavily invaded wih fibers; appears glassy and smooth

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Hyaline Cartilage

29
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Matrix hard owing to calcium salts; provides levers for musclesto act on

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Osseous Tissue

30
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Insulates against heat loss

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Adipose Tissue

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