Tissue pa rin? Flashcards
The most widely distributed connective tissue variety in the body. It is soft, pliable, “cobwebby” tissue that cushions and protects the body organs it wraps. It helps to hold the internal organs together and in their proper positions.
Areolar Tissue
is commonly called fat. It forms the subcutaneous tissue beneath the skin, where it insulates the body and protects it from extremes of both heat and cold
Adipose tissue
consists of a delicate network of interwoven reticular fibers, which resemble fibroblast.
Reticular connective tissue
considered connective tissue because it consists of blood cells, surrounded by nonliving, fluid matrix called blood plasma
Blood or vascular tissue
are highly specialized to contract or shorten to produce movement
Muscle tissues
are elongated which provide a long axis for contraction, they are called muscle fibers.
Muscles cells
are packed by connective tissue sheets into organs, which are attached to skeleton.
Skeletal muscles
is found only in the heart. Like skeletal muscles, it has striations, but cells are uninucleate (one nucleus), branching cells that fit tightly together (like clasped fingers) at junction called intercalated disks
Cardiac muscle or heart muscle
do not have striations that it appears smooth. The individual cells have a single nucleus and are spindle shaped (pointed at each end).
Smooth muscle or visceral muscle
consists of neurons. All neurons receive and conducts electrochemical impulses from one part of the body to another, thus irritability and conductivity are their two functional characteristics.
NERVOUS TISSUE
a thin layer or sheet of cells that either covers the outside of the body, or lines an internal body cavity, lines a vessel, or line the movable joint cavity.
tissue membrane
is the underlying connective tissue, it help support the epithelial layer
lamina propria
lines the cavities of the body that do not open to the external environment
serous membrane
a multi-layered membrane composed of epithelial, and connective tissues; The apical surface of this membrane exposed to the external environment and is covered with dead, keratinized cells that help protect the body from desiccation and pathogens. The skin is an example
cutaneous membrane