Tissues

Question 1

What is Simple Squamous Epithelium?

Answer 1

Epithelial tissue that specializes in rapid diffusion and is found in the alveoli and lining of blood vessels

Question 2

What is Stratified Squamous Epithelium?

Answer 2

epithelial tissue that specializes in protection and is found on the outer layer of the skin

Question 3

What is Simple Cuboidal Epithelium?

Answer 3

Epithelial tissue that specializes in filtration (secretion and absorption) and is found in the kidney tubules and ovaries

Question 4

What is Simple Columnar Epithelium?

Answer 4

A type of epithelial tissue that specializes in protection, secretion, and absorption and is found in the intestinal wall

Question 5

What is Transition Epithelium?

Answer 5

Type of epithelial tissue that is meant to stretch and is found in the bladder

Question 6

What is pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium?

Answer 6

Epithelial tissue that specializes in secretion and absorption, contains cilia, and is found in the nasal cavity

Question 7

What is Loose Connective (Areolar) Tissue?

Answer 7

Connective tissue that stores water, and wraps organs

Question 8

What is Adipose tissue?

Answer 8

Also known as fat. It is good for insulation, lipid storage, and protection. Found under skin and surrounding organs.

Question 9

What is Reticular connective Tissue

Answer 9

Connective Tissue that houses blood and is found in the medullary cavity and the spleen

Question 10

What is Dense Regular tissue?

Answer 10

Type of Connective Tissue that can withstand pull in one direction and is found in ligaments and tendons

Question 11

What is Hyalin Cartilage

Answer 11

Type of cartilage that can withstand pull in many directions and is found covering the ends of bones

Question 12

What is elastic Cartilage?

Answer 12

The cartilage that can stretch and recoil. It is found in the lungs and arteries.

Question 13

What is Bone Tissue?

Answer 13

Connective tissue that specializes in support and protection and is found throughout the skeleton.

Question 14

What is Cartilage?

Answer 14

tissue that contains a matrix of proteins, like elastic fibers and collagen fibers, and cartilage cells within small pits called lacune

Question 15

What is blood?

Answer 15

Fluid connective tissue that transports oxygen through blood vessels

Question 16

What is Skeletal Muscle Tissue?

Answer 16

Muscle tissue that attaches to the bone for locomotion (voluntary movements)

Question 17

What is Cardiac Muscle Tissue?

Answer 17

Muscle Tissue that contracts to pump blood through blood vessels. Found in the wall of the heart.

Question 18

What is smooth muscle tissue?

Answer 18

Muscle tissues that specialize in the involuntary movement of hollow organs. Found in the stomach and intestinal walls.

Question 19

What is Nervous tissue?

Answer 19

Tissue that specializes in communication; found in the brain, spinal cords, and nerves.

Question 20

What is Fibrocartilage?

Answer 20

The cartilage that is highly resistant to compression and stretching; found in vertebral discs

Question 21

What are gap junctions?

Answer 21

junctions that connect cells so that they can communicate through the nervous system. Found in intercalated discs

Question 22

What is the apical surface?

Answer 22

The surface of the epithelium that faces the open space (lumen); faces the inside of the hollow organ or bloodvessel

Question 23

What is the basal surface?

Answer 23

The surface of the epithelium that attaches to the basement membrane and surrounding tissue.

Question 24

What is the lumen?

Answer 24

The open space of an organ that the apical surface faces.

Question 25

What is an Exocrine Gland?

Answer 25

A gland that releases chemicals into the lumen of hollow organs or the surface of the skin.

Question 26

What is an Endocrine glans?

Answer 26

a gland that releases chemicals into the blood or lymphatic vessels.

Question 27

What are tight junctions?

Answer 27

Waterproof attachments formed by membrane proteins in cimple columnar cells that prevent leakage of intestinal contents

Question 28

What are Desmosomes?

Answer 28

protein filaments that pass through neighboring cell membranes, holding them together.