Connective Tissue Flashcards
1
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Fewer fibers, more ground substance
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Loose Connective Tissue
2
Q
More fibers, less ground substance
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Dense Connective Tissue
3
Q
- Base area
- Like cytoplasm
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Ground substance
4
Q
- Most abundant
- Strongest
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Collagen
5
Q
- Bold pigment
- Curly
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Elastic
6
Q
- Weblike
- Networking and branching
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Reticular
7
Q
Stem cell
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Mesenchymal
8
Q
Immune systems
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Macrophage
9
Q
Calorie storage system
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Adipocyte
10
Q
Secrete/create fiber
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Fibroblast
11
Q
Creation/secreation
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Blast
12
Q
Maintenance
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Cyte
13
Q
Broken down/repair
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Clast
14
Q
- Skin
- More ground substance
- Provides support and helps to protect organs
- Contains “all three types of fibers”
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Areolar Connective Tissue
15
Q
- Heart, stomach, liver
- Globular area
- Nucleus is at the side
- Known as the “body fats”
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Adipose Tissue
16
Q
- Aorta
- Consists of fibroblasts and densely compacted
parallel bundles of fibers - Provides elasticity and resilience to the tissues
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Elastic Connective Tissue
17
Q
- Tendon
- Uniform alignment of fibers
- Mainly made up of collagen fiber
- Collagen fibers are packed together
- Allows tissue to return to its “original length” after stretching
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue
18
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- Skin (dermis)
- 3-dimensional structure that can withstand significant force from different directions
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Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
19
Q
- Joints, respiratory tract
- White semi-solid orientation cell
- Helps your bones move smoothly past each other in your joints
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Hyaline Cartilage
20
Q
- Supports parts of your body that need to bend and move to function
- Most flexible
- Found in the larynx
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Elastic Cartilage
21
Q
- Predominantly in the intervertebral disks of the spine and at the insertions of ligaments and tendons
- Act as a cushion within joints
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Fibrocartilage
22
Q
- Support and protection of soft tissues, calcium
- Production of blood cells
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Bone
23
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- A fluid connective tissue
- Deliver oxygen and nutrients to various cells and tissues of the body
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Blood Cell
