Tissue (True Membranes)

Question 1

What are membranes

Answer 1

Thin sheets of one or more tissues that lines body cavities or surface

Question 2

What are functions of membranes

Answer 2

-anchors organs in place
-serves as barrier
-immunity
-secrete substances

Question 3

What are the true membranes

Answer 3

Serous and synovial because it fits structural and functional definitions

Question 4

What are the membrane-like structures

Answer 4

Mucous and cutaneous membrane, and they can perform many of the same functions

Question 5

What do mucous membranes do

Answer 5

-lines the walls of hollow organs that open to the outside of body (respiratory passages, mouth, nose, digestive tract, reproductive tracts)

Question 6

What does the cutaneous membrane do

Answer 6

-refers to the skin

-has keratinized stratified squamous epithelium aka epidermis (outer layer of skin)

-has deep layer of loose connective tissue and a deeper layer of dense irregular connective tissue aka dermis (inside layer of skin)

-dermis houses blood vessels; oxygen and nutrients diffuse up to avascular epidermis

Question 7

What does synovial membrane do

Answer 7

It lines cavities that surround joints (knee or shoulder)

The outer layer has loose CT and dense irregular CT

The inner layer has synoviocytes that secretes synovial fluid (watery and slippery) which lubricates joints