Tissues Flashcards
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Epithelial
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Forms boundaries between different environments, protects, secretes, absorbs, filters
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Nervous
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Internal communication
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Muscle
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Contracts to cause movement
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Connective
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Supports, protects, binds other tissues together
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Characteristics of epithelial tissue
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- Thin 6. Innervated
- Continuous sheets 7. Polarized
- Little interstitial space 8. Regenerate quickly
- Little interstitial matrix
- Avascular
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Simple
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One cell thick epithelium
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Stratified
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Layered epithelium
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Squamous
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Flat
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Cuboidal
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Cube shaped
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Columnar
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Tall and thin cells
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Simple columnar (2)
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Ciliated non ciliated
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Pseudostratified
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Simple epithelium that seems stratified
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Goblet cell
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Glandular cell that makes mucus
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Simple squamous
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Keratinized- epithelium
Unkeratinized- mouth
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Transitional epithelium
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Stretches and changes shape