Tissues
Epithelial Tissues
Connective Tissues
Muscle and Nervous Tissues
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100
A group of specialized cells that work together to perform a common function
What is a tissue?
100
The two types of layering that can occur in epithelial tissue
What is simple and stratified?
100
4 of the 8 types of connective tissue found in the human body
What is loose (areolar), dense, adipose, blood, bone, hyaline cartilage, elastic cartilage and fibrocartilage? (Any 4)
100
The 3 types of muscle tissue found in the body
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle?
100
Two of the three types formed elements that are found in blood
What is red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets?
200
The four primary types of tissues found in the human body
What are the epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous tissues?
200
The type of tissue that is found in regions where secretion, absorption and diffusion occur
What is simple squamous?
200
The 3 major types of cartilage found in the human body
What is hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage?
200
The two major cells found in nervous tissue
What are neurons and neuroglial cells?
200
This connective tissue is responsible for providing energy, as well as cushioning and insulating the body
What is adipose tissue?
300
The study of tissues
What is histology?
300
The type of epithelial tissue that is found where mechanical stresses are severe, such as the lining of the mouth and the outer layer of the skin
What is stratified squamous?
300
The type of tissue that makes up tendons, which connect muscles to bones
What is dense connective tissue?
300
This type of tissue is striated with only one nuclei per cell
What is cardiac muscle?
300
This fiber has great tensile strength and is an important component of tendons and ligaments
What is collagen?
400
This major type of tissue covers exposed surfaces and lines internal passageways and body cavities
What is epithelial tissue?
400
This type of tissue lines the bladder and its cells have the ability to expand and contract
What is transitional epithelium?
400
Another name for bone cells
What are osteocytes?
400
This type of muscle tissue is controlled involuntarily and found in the digestive tract
What is smooth muscle?
400
Another name for cartilage cells, which occupy small chambers called lacunae
What are chrondocytes?
500
The two general parts of a tissue
What is the cells and the extracellular matrix?
500
The two general parts of epithelial tissue
What is a free surface and a basement membrane?
500
These cells produce collagen, elastic or reticular fibers; they are also the most numerous cells in connective tissue
What are fibroblasts?
500
This is the only type of muscle tissue that has cells that can be up to a foot in length with hundreds of nuclei per cell! WOW!
What is skeletal muscle?
500
Specialized cells that store fat droplets within their cytoplasm and enlarge
What are adipocytes?
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