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Test 2 Flashcards

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secretion and absorption
Kidney tubules, ducts of glands, ovary surface

Lg nuclei

A

Simple Cuboildal ET

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Function : Diffusion

Location: Air Sacs of lungs, lining capillaries, covering ventral organs

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Simple Squamous ET

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Protection, absorptions, secretion
Lining am. Intestines, lining uterus

Single layer elongated, basally nuclei

+ microvilli
+ goblet cells

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Simple columnar ET

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Secretion, protection
Lining trachea, lining Fallopian tubes

Single layer elongated, scattered nuclei, l much BM.

+ Cilia
+ Goblet Cells

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Pseudostratified Columnar ET

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Protection

Keratinized- skin
Non- mouth, vag, throat, anus

Many layers flat

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Stratified Squamous ET

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Stretching (distend ability)
Urinary bladder, ureter, uterus

Many layers of cells that change shape

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Transitional ET

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Secretion
Sweat gland, gastric gland

Simple Cuboildal or Columnar ET

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Glandular ET

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Apocrine

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Portion of cell

Mammary

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Meocrine

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None of cell

Saliva

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Holocrine

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All

Oil

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4 primary adult tissues

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M usle
E pithelial
N ervous
C onnective

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Characteristics of connective tissue

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Wide range of vascularity
(Cartilage, avascualr —> bone, rich blood supply)

Cells+ extra cellular matrix
(Ground substance + fibers)

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Three embryonic germ layers

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Ectoderm (outside) - et and NT

Mesoderm (middle) - et, CT and MT

Endoderm ( inside) - et

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Ground Substance

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Amorphous material that fills spaces between cells and fibers

Molecular drive for nutrients and gasses to diffuse between cells and blood capillaries

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White Blood Cells that respond to tissue damage

A type of wandering cells

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Mast:
Secrete heparin to prevent clotting
Secrete histamine to promote inflammation

Macrophages: (phagocytes)
Eat foreign materials

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Collagen Fibers

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Composed of protein collagen

High tensile strength to matrix
PINK

Are a CT

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Elastic Fibers

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Composed of protein elastin

Rubbery resiliency to matrix
Purple
Skin, lungs, blood vessels

Are a type of CT

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Reticular Fibers

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Fine collagenous fibers

Delicate meteors
Basement Membranes

Are a type of CT

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Exocrine gland

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Secretes into a duct

Many-
Simple
Compound (branched)
Tubular 
Alveolar (saclike)

Glandular epithelium

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Loose Areolar CT

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Gel like with fibroblasts, collagen, elastic fibers

Below epithelium, covers ventral organs

Diffusion, cushions

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Adipose tissue

CT proper

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Fat cells
Under skin, around eyeballs
Energy storage, insulation, protection

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Reticular CT

Proper

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Reticular fibers w/in loose ground substance and reticulocytes

Basement membranes, lymphatic organs
(Lymph nodes, thymus, spleen)

Support

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Dense Regular CT (white fibrous)

Proper

A

Collagen fibers with fibroblasts (can only see nuclei)

Tendons, ligaments

Attachment, tensile strength

Poor blood supply

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Dense Irregular CT

Proper

A

Collagen fibers
Dermis, heart valves
Tensile strength

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Elastic CT

Proper

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Elastic fibers

Lung tissue, wall of aorta

Durability with stretch

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Hyaline Cartilage

special CT

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Amorphous (chondroitin and glucosamine) matrix that surrounds cells= CHONDROCYTES

embryonic skeleton, costal cartilages, nose teaches, and larynx

Support

avascular= no healing

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Elastic Cartilage

special CT

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Elastic fibers

External ear, epiglottis

Maintain shape plus flex

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Fibrocartilage

special CT

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Less firm the elastic cartilage

Intervertebral discs, pubic symphysis

Tensile strength plus shock absorber

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Skeletal MT

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Striations
Voluntary

Moves bones of skeleton

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Cardiac MT

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Network of cells with one central nucleus.

Intercalated discs (where cells meet)

Strait ions
Pump blood from heart to lungs
Pump blood from heart to body

Involuntary

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Smooth MT

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Spindle shape, one central nucleus

No striations
Involuntary

Blood vessels, Hollow visceral organs, hair follicles

MVMT OF FOOD THROUGH DIG. TRACT

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Cutaneous membrane

E membrane

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Skin

K stratified squamous ET

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Mucous membrane

ET membrane

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Line body cavities. Digestive, resp, and urinary

Moist membrane
ET attached to CT

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Serous membrane

ET membrane

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Ventral body cavities

Visceral is to organ as
Parietal is to body cavity

Secretes serous fluid - lube

Peritoneal- abdominal organs

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CT fixed cells

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Fibroblasts in proper
Osteocytes in bone
Chondrocytes in cartilage

35
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Blast cells

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Undifferentiated cells that secrete matrix

A&P I (5 decks)

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