Lesson 1.2 Tissues Key Terms

Question 1

Appendicular Skeleton

Answer 1

Bones of the limbs and limb girdles that are attached to the axial skeleton

Question 2

Axial Skeleton

Answer 2

The skeleton of the trunk and head

Question 3

Connective Tissue

Answer 3

Animal tissue that functions mainly to bind and support other tissues, having a sparse population of cells scattered through an extracellular matrix

Question 4

Epithelial Tissue

Answer 4

Sheets of tightly packed cells that line organs and body cavities

Question 5

Femur

Answer 5

The proximal none of the hind or lower limb that is the longest and largest bone in the human body, extends from the hip to the knee

Question 6

Forensic Anthropology

Answer 6

The branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law

Question 7

Humerus

Answer 7

The longest bone of the upper arm or forelimb extending from the shoulder to the elbow

Question 8

Pelvis

Answer 8

A basin-shaped structure in the skeleton of many vertebrates that is formed by the pelvic girdle together with sacrum and often various coccygeal and caudal vertebrae and that in humans is composed of the two hip bones bounding it on each side and in front while the sacrum and coccyx complete it behind

Question 9

Skull

Answer 9

The skeleton of the head forming a bony case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws

Question 10

Tibia

Answer 10

The inner and usually larger of the two bones of the keg between the knee and ankle that articulates above with the femur and below with the talus – called also shinbone

Question 11

Tissue

Answer 11

An integrated group of cells with a common structure and function

Question 12

Adipose Tissue

Answer 12

Connective tissue in which far is stored and which has cells distended by droplets of fat