Tissue Type
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What is the number of tissue types?
flat cells
What is squamous cells?
tissue that supports other tissues, holds tissues together or fills spaces
What is connective tissue?
The muscle tissue is also an ______________.
What is an organ?
Also known as glia
What is neuroglia?
Contains neurons and neuroglia
What is nerve tissue?
a single layer of cells
What is simple?
The intercellular material that is produced is composed of a mixture of sugar protein molecules and interstitial fluid
What is ground substance?
Muscles produce movement by ___________________.
What is contracting (shortening)?
Highly specialized cells that conduct electrochemical signals very rapidly
What is a neuron?
Blood, hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, fat are examples of
What is connective tissue?
multiple layer of cells
What is stratified?
Tendons, scars, and organs that must stay stationary are made of __________________
What is collagen?
Long, cylindrical, numerous nuclei
What are skeletal muscles?
Made up of supporting cells of the nervous system
What is neuroglia?
Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
What is muscle tissue?
cube shaped cells
What are cuboidal cells?
bluish- white, almost opaque cartilage
What is hyaline cartilage?
Only found in the heart (myocardium)
What is cardiac muscle?
Nerve tissue is characterized by its well developed properties of conductivity and ___________________.
What is excitability?
Simple squamous, cuboidal, columnar, stratified
What is types of epithelial tissue?
column shaped cells
Presence of blood vessels
What is vascular tissue?
Involuntary, short spindle shaped tissue
What is smooth muscle?
Contains a cell body, axon, and a dendrite
What is a neuron?