Name that Tissue
This tissue type covers surfaces and lines cavities.
What is epithelial tissue?
Epithelial tissue is avascular. This means it lacks what?
What is a blood supply?
This muscle type is striated and voluntary.
What is skeletal muscle?
The strongest and most abundant connective fiber.
What is collagen?
Redness, swelling, and pain are signs of this response.
What is inflammation?
This tissue type controls and communicates through electrical impulses.
What is nervous tissue?
This type of epithelial cell is flat and scale-like.
What is squamous?
This muscle tissue is only found in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
This type of cartilage is found in the intervertebral discs.
What is fibrocartilage?
Which highly specific response develops more slowly than inflammation following injury or invasion?
What is the immune response?
This tissue type supports, binds, and stores fat.
What is connective tissue?
This rare epithelial type stretches in the urinary bladder.
What is transitional epithelium?
This non-striated muscle type is typically found in hollow internal organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This type of loose connective tissue surrounds most small nerves and blood vessels.
What is areolar?
This quick response to bodily damage dilutes possible toxins at the site.
What is the inflammatory response?
This tissue type is responsible for voluntary movement.
What is skeletal muscle tissue?
Simple squamous epithelium is best suited for this function. (2 possible answers)
What is diffusion or filtration?
These special junctions join bifurcated cardiac cells.
What are intercalated discs?
This subtype of dense connective tissue allows tissues to recoil.
What is elastic?
Inflammation brings these key resources from the blood to the site. (3 answers)
What are oxygen, nutrients, and antibodies?
This type of connective tissue developed from mesenchyme.
What is blood?
The top surface of epithelial cells is called this.
What is the apical surface?
Smooth muscle is known by this shape description. (2 possible answers)
What is spindle-shaped or fusiform?
This type of loose connective tissue stores energy and insulates the body.
What is adipose?
These are the five classic signs of inflammation.
What are redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of function?