Tissue Functions
The term for the study of tissues
What is histology?
Another name for the free surface or edge of epithelial tissue
What is the apical surface?
A non-living substance only found outside of the cells in connective tissue
What is the extracellular matrix?
This type of muscle tissue can be controlled voluntarily
What is skeletal muscle tissue?
The two types of cells that make up nervous tissue
What are neurons and neuroglia?
The most abundant and widely distributed tissue type
What is connective tissue?
The definition of "tissue"
What is "a group of cells that are similar in structure and function"?
What the lower surface of epithelial tissue rests upon
What is the basement membrane?
Another name for bone
What is osseous tissue?
This type of muscle tissue is only found in one very specific place in the body
What is cardiac muscle tissue?
The type of nerve cell that does not generate a nerve impulse
What is neuroglia?
Tissues are further organized into __________
What are organs?
The functions of epithelial tissue
What are absorption, filtration, secretion, and protection?
Why epithelial tissue is referred to as avascular
What is because it has no blood supply of its own?
Dense and Loose tissue are sub-categories of this type of connective tissue
What is connective tissue proper?
What is smooth muscle tissue?
Three main structures of the nervous system that consist of nerve cells
What are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
Glandular epithelium is the tissue that makes up these two types of glands
What are endocrine and exocrine?
The functions of connective tissue
What is protection, support/binding, insulation, and transportation?
This determines the first name given to an epithelial tissue type
What is the number of layers?
A type of loose connective tissue that is commonly referred to as fat
What is adipose tissue?
These muscle tissue types are controlled involuntarily
What is smooth and cardiac?
These make up the smaller percent (approx. 10%) of nerve cells
What are neurons?
These are what determine hardness or softness of the extracellular matrix in connective tissue
What are the fibers?
The function of muscle tissue
What is to contract or shorten in order to produce movement?
This determines the second name given to an epithelial tissue type
What is the shape of the cells?
What is blood?
These types of muscles tissues have obvious striations
What are skeletal and cardiac?
These nerve cells are able to regenerate after an injury
What are neuroglia?
This type of tissue has a calcified ground substance
What is bone?
The function of nervous tissue
What is to receive and conduct electrochemical impulses?
An epithelial tissue type located in areas where considerable stretching occurs
What is transitional epithelium?
Tendons and ligaments are this type of dense connective tissue
What is regular dense connective tissue?
The wave-like motion that keeps food moving through the small intestine
What is peristalsis?
What is a nerve impulse (or more specifically, an electrochemical impulse)?
Highly flexible cartilage found in the outer ear and tip of the nose
What is elastic cartilage?