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Location & Function Flashcards

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Simple cuboidal epithelium function:

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secretion and absorption

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Simple columnar epithelium function:

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absorption and secretion

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Pseudostratified columnar epithelium function:

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secretion of mucous

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Stratified squamous epithelium function:

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protects underlying tissues

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Stratified cuboidal epithelium function:

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protection

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Stratified columnar epithelium function:

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protection and secretion

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Transitional epithelium function:

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stretches readily

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Areolar loose connective tissue proper function:

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wraps and cushions organs

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Adipose loose connective tissue proper function:

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  • energy
  • insulates against heat loss
  • supports and protects organs
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Reticular loose connective tissue proper function:

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fibers form soft internal skeleton that supports other cell types

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Dense irregular connective tissue proper function:

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structural strength

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Simple squamous epithelium function:

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Diffusion and filtration

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Dense regular connective tissue proper function:

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attaches muscles to bones, bones to bones.

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Elastic dense connective tissue proper function:

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recoil after stretching

maintains blood flow thru arteries

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Hyaline cartilage function:

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supports and reinforces

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Elastic cartilage function:

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maintains shape of structure while allowing flexibility

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Fibrocartilage function:

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strength with ability to absorb compressive shock

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Osseous tissue (bone) function:

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supports and protects, stores calcium and other minerals, blood cell formation in marrow

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Blood connective tissue proper function:

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transport

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Cardiac muscle function:

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blood circulation (involuntary control)

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Smooth muscle function:

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propels substances or objects along internal passageways (involuntary control)

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Nervous tissue function:

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transmit signals that control activity

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Simple cuboidal epithelium location

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  • Kidney tubules
  • Ducts and secretory portions of small glands
  • Ovary surface
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Simple columnar epithelium location

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Location of nonciliated:

  • Lines most of digestive tract
  • Gallbladder
  • Excretory ducts of some glands

Location of ciliated:

  • Lines small bronchi
  • Uterine tubes
  • Some regions of uterus
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Pseudostratified columnar epithelium location:

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Location of nonciliated:

  • Males sperm carrying ducts
  • Ducts of large glands

Location of ciliated:

  • Lines trachea
  • Most of upper respiratory tract
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Stratified squamous epithelium location:

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Location of nonkeratinized:

  • Lining of esophagus
  • Mouth
  • Vagina

Location of keratinized:
-Epidermis of skin

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Stratified cuboidal epithelium location:

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  • Largest ducts of sweat glands
  • Mammary glands
  • Salivary glands
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Stratified columnar epithelium location:

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  • Rare in the body
  • Small amounts in male urethra
  • Large ducts of some glands
29
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Transitional epithelium location:

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  • Lines the ureters
  • Bladder
  • Part of the urethra
30
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Areolar loose connective tissue proper location:

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-under epithelia of body: packages organs, surrounds capillaries

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Adipose loose connective tissue proper location:

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  • Under skin in hypodermis
  • Around kidneys and eyeballs
  • Within abdomen
  • Breasts
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Reticular loose connective tissue proper location:

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Lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen)

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Dense irregular connective tissue proper location:

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  • Fibrous capsules of organs and joints
  • Dermis of the skin
  • Submucosa of digestive tract
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Simple squamous epithelium location:

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  • kidney glomeruli
  • air sacs of lungs
  • lining of heart
  • blood vessels
  • lymphatic vessels
  • lining of central body cavity (serosae)
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Dense regular connective tissue proper location:

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  • Tendons
  • Most ligaments
  • Aponeuroses
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Elastic dense connective tissue proper location:

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  • Walls of large arteries
  • Within certain ligaments in the vertebrae column
  • Within walls of bronchial tubes
37
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Hyaline cartilage location:

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  • Forms most of embryonic skeleton
  • Covers ends of long bones in joint cavities
  • ribs
  • cartilage of nose
  • trachea
  • larynx
38
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Elastic cartilage location:

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  • external ear (pinna)

- epiglottis

39
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Fibrocartilage location:

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  • intervertebral discs
  • pubic symphysis
  • discs of knee joint (meniscus)
40
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Smooth muscle location:

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mostly in walls of hollow organs (digestive tract)

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Nervous tissue location:

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brain, spinal cord, and nerves

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