Tissues Flashcards
What is Simple Squamous Epithelium?
Epithelial tissue that specializes in rapid diffusion and is found in the alveoli and lining of blood vessels
What is Stratified Squamous Epithelium?
epithelial tissue that specializes in protection and is found on the outer layer of the skin
What is Simple Cuboidal Epithelium?
Epithelial tissue that specializes in filtration (secretion and absorption) and is found in the kidney tubules and ovaries
What is Simple Columnar Epithelium?
A type of epithelial tissue that specializes in protection, secretion, and absorption and is found in the intestinal wall
What is Transition Epithelium?
Type of epithelial tissue that is meant to stretch and is found in the bladder
What is pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium?
Epithelial tissue that specializes in secretion and absorption, contains cilia, and is found in the nasal cavity
What is Loose Connective (Areolar) Tissue?
Connective tissue that stores water, and wraps organs
What is Adipose tissue?
Also known as fat. It is good for insulation, lipid storage, and protection. Found under skin and surrounding organs.
What is Reticular connective Tissue
Connective Tissue that houses blood and is found in the medullary cavity and the spleen
What is Dense Regular tissue?
Type of Connective Tissue that can withstand pull in one direction and is found in ligaments and tendons
What is Hyalin Cartilage
Type of cartilage that can withstand pull in many directions and is found covering the ends of bones
What is elastic Cartilage?
The cartilage that can stretch and recoil. It is found in the lungs and arteries.
What is Bone Tissue?
Connective tissue that specializes in support and protection and is found throughout the skeleton.
What is Cartilage?
tissue that contains a matrix of proteins, like elastic fibers and collagen fibers, and cartilage cells within small pits called lacune
What is blood?
Fluid connective tissue that transports oxygen through blood vessels
What is Skeletal Muscle Tissue?
Muscle tissue that attaches to the bone for locomotion (voluntary movements)
What is Cardiac Muscle Tissue?
Muscle Tissue that contracts to pump blood through blood vessels. Found in the wall of the heart.
What is smooth muscle tissue?
Muscle tissues that specialize in the involuntary movement of hollow organs. Found in the stomach and intestinal walls.
What is Nervous tissue?
Tissue that specializes in communication; found in the brain, spinal cords, and nerves.
What is Fibrocartilage?
The cartilage that is highly resistant to compression and stretching; found in vertebral discs
What are gap junctions?
junctions that connect cells so that they can communicate through the nervous system. Found in intercalated discs
What is the apical surface?
The surface of the epithelium that faces the open space (lumen); faces the inside of the hollow organ or bloodvessel
What is the basal surface?
The surface of the epithelium that attaches to the basement membrane and surrounding tissue.
What is the lumen?
The open space of an organ that the apical surface faces.
What is an Exocrine Gland?
A gland that releases chemicals into the lumen of hollow organs or the surface of the skin.
What is an Endocrine glans?
a gland that releases chemicals into the blood or lymphatic vessels.
What are tight junctions?
Waterproof attachments formed by membrane proteins in cimple columnar cells that prevent leakage of intestinal contents
What are Desmosomes?
protein filaments that pass through neighboring cell membranes, holding them together.
