Regions & Planes
Plane splitting body to front and back.
What is the Coronal Plane?
The connective tissue that stores energy.
What is adipose?
The extra layer of the epidermis present on thick skin (soles of the feet).
What is the stratum lucidum?
The organelle where DNA is stored.
What is the nucleus?
Junction that allows for movement of substances through them.
What are gap junctions?
Plane dividing the body into superior and inferior regions.
Cells that produce collagen.
What are fibroblasts?
The layer of the epidermis that is actively dividing.
What is the stratum basale?
The organelle that breaks down cellular debris.
What is a lysosome?
What are hemi-desmosomes?
The most superior and medial region of the abdomen.
What is the epigastric region?
The fascia that separates the hypodermis and the muscle
What is deep fascia?
The layer of the epidermis 15-30 cells thick.
What is the stratum corneum?
The organelle that packages and transports lipids and proteins.
What is the golgi complex?
The proteins used by desmosomes.
What is integrin?
The quadrant the appendix is found.
What is the right lower quadrant?
Connective tissue that is found in places enduring stress from multiple directions.
What is dense irregular connective tissue proper?
The tissue the papillary layer of the dermis is made of.
What is areolar connective tissue?
Organelle responsible for cell movement.
What is the cytoskeleton?
The type of junction found in epithelial tissue.
What are tight junctions?
The plane that would separate the plural cavities.
Fluid connective tissue containing erythrocytes.
What is blood?
Melanin-producing cells found in the stratum basale.
What are melanocytes?
Occupies space and where signal transduction occurs.
What is cytosol?
The type of junction where cadherins are used.
What are adherins junctions?