Lab 3: Connective Tissue Flashcards
Connective tissue
binds together, supports, and strengthens other body tissues
- protects and insulates internal organs
- highly vascular (exceptions; cartilage, tendon)
- innervated (exceptions: cartilage)
- found in two categories:
1. loose connective tissues
2. dense connective tissues
Loose Connective Tissues
- areolar tissue
- adipose tissue
- reticular tissue
Dense Connective Tissues
- dense regular connective tissue
- dense irregular connective tissue
- elastic tissue
3 Types Of Cartilage
- Hyaline Cartilage
- Elastic Cartilage
- Fibrocartilage
Bone (osseous) Tissue
contains of cells and osteocytes
-made up of osteons; structures that contain a centrally located canal surrounded by ring-like layers (looks like a half of an onion)
Blood Tissue
consists of cells (blood cells), fibers (plasma proteins), and a ground substance (plasma).
- has red circles
- white blood cells( light blue - purple, lighter than red blood cells)
Hyaline Cartilage (looks like)
looks like hyena print (leopard print)
Fibrocartilage (looks like)
-wavy blue lines( bundles of collagen)
Elastic Cartilage (looks like)
- looks like sushi
- black around
Dense Regular connective tissue (looks like)
-dense connective tissue
fibers running parallel
looks like dessert sands
Dense Irregular connective Tissue (looks like)
-dense connective tissue
collagen fibers waved, curved, wispy
-kind of looks like someone painted
Elastic Tissue (looks like)
- dense connective tissue
- has really thick purple elastic fibers
Areolar tissue (looks like)
- loose connective tissue
- purple dots
- lots of pink “ground substance”
- long skinny lines of fibers
Adipose (looks like)
- loose connective tissue
- honeycomb looking
- light pink lines- inside white
Reticular (looks like)
- loose connective tissue
- tiny purple circles (cells)
- a lot of fibers
