Epithelial Tissue
What tissue type is found in the lining of blood vessels?
Simple squamous
What tissue type is found in lymphoid organs and involved in the immune system?
Loose reticular connective tissue (proper)
What tissue type exhibits many nuclei per cell?
Skeletal muscle tissue
What major tissue type forms the brain & spinal cord?
Nervous tissue
Tissues combine to form what?
Organs
What tissue type functions in stretch?
Transitional
What tissue type functions to provide a reserve of fuel for the body?
Adipose tissue (loose connective tissue proper)
What tissue type exhibits intercalated discs?
Cardiac muscle tissue
What major tissue type is avascular & exhibits a basement membrane?
Epithelial tissue
What is the term used for the microscopic study of tissues?
Histology
What tissue type is found in the lining of the upper respiratory tract & is frequently ciliated?
Pseudostratified columnar
What tissue type functions to attach muscle to bone?
Dense regular connective tissue (proper)
What tissue type is found in the walls of hollow organs?
Smooth muscle tissue
What major tissue type exhibits an extracellular matrix, which includes support fibers?
Connective tissue
What are the two categories used to categorize epithelial tissue?
Shape & number of layers
What tissue type functions in absorption & secretion in the digestive tract?
Simple columnar
What tissue type is found on the ends of long bones?
Hyaline cartilage
What tissue type does NOT exhibit striations?
Smooth muscle tissue
What major tissue type controls voluntary & involuntary movement?
Muscle tissue
What are the three types of dense connective tissue?
Regular, irregular & elastic
What is the rarest type of epithelial tissue?
Stratified columnar
What tissue type is found within large arteries?
Elastic connective tissue (proper)
Skeletal muscle tissue
What tissue type does bone & blood belong to?
Connective tissue
What are the two surfaces of epithelial tissue?
Apical & basal