Pick Your Tissue
This tissue type covers body surfaces and lines cavities.
What is epithelial tissue?
This connective tissue stores fat and cushions organs.
What is adipose tissue?
This type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones.
What is skeletal muscle?
This is the outmost layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
This pigment gives skin its color.
What is melanin?
This epithelial tissue allows diffusion and filtration and is found in alveoli.
What is simple squamous epithelium?
This protein provided strength and support in connective tissue?
What is collagen?
This muscle tissue is found in the walls of organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This layer contains blood vessels, nerves and glands.
What is the dermis?
These glands produce sweat to regulate body temperature.
What are sweat glands?
A patient with a pressure ulcer had damage to this tissue type that protects and lines surfaces.
What is epithelial tissue?
This connective tissue connects muscle to bone. These are fibrous connective tissue.
What is a tendon?
This tissue type is responsible for communication through electrical signals.
What is nervous tissue?
This layer contains adipose tissue and helps insulate the body.
What is the hypodermis or subcutaneous layer?
A burn of the epidermis layer of skin.
What is a first degree burn?
This epithelial tissue is a barrier to microorganisms because the cells are very close together
What is stratified squamous epithelium?
These are ductless glands and secrete hormones.
What are endocrine glands?
This muscle is involuntary.
What is Smooth muscle?
These cells in the epidermis help with immune defense.
What are Langerhans cells?
Too much of this from ceruminous gland.
What is earwax buildup?
This membrane lines body cavities that open to the outside of the body.
What is a mucous membrane?
These have ducts that secrete saliva or sweat.
What are exocrine glands?
These muscle cells have the ability to contract by themselves. They make your heart beat.
What are cardiac muscle cells?
This function helps to prevent the drying out of the skin and hair.
What the secretion of sebum from the sebaceous glands?
A burn that destroys both epidermis and dermis and can extend to the subcutaneous tissue.
What is a third-degree burn?