Characteristics of Connective
Classification of Connective
Characteristics of Nervous
Tissue Repair
Location Identification
100
The most abundant type of tissue in the body and connects body parts
What is connective tissue?
100
Has collagen fibers as its main matrix and makes up tendons and ligaments
What is dense connective tissue?
100
Receive and conduct electrochemical impulses from one part of the body to another
What is neurons?
100
The two major ways tissue repair occurs
What is regeneration and fibrosis?
100
Found in the femur
What is bone?
200
A nonliving substance found outside the cells
What is extracellular matrix?
200
Vascular tissue
What is blood?
200
Neurons are responsible for what two major functional characteristics
What is irritability and conductivity?
200
The replacement of destroyed tissue by the same kind of cells
What is regeneration?
200
Found attaching the rib bones to the breastbone
What is hyaline cartilage?
300
The three functions of connective tissue
What are protecting, supporting and binding together other body tissues?
300
Made of up three different types of tissue: areolar, adipose and reticular
What is loose connective tissue?
300
Insulate, support and protect neurons
What is supporting cells?
300
Involves repair by dense connective tissue by the formation of scar tissue
What is fibrosis?
300
Found in the spleen
What is reticular connective tissue?
400
List the types of connective tissue from most rigid to softest
What is bone, cartilage, dense connective tissue, loose connective tissue, loose connective tissue and blood
400
Surrounded by layers of a very hard matrix that contain calcium salts in addition to large numbers of collagen fibers
What is bone?
400
Neurons and supporting cells make up what system
What is nervous system?
400
The two things that determine the way of tissue repair
What is type of tissue damage and the severity?
400
Found in the capillaries
What is blood?
500
A less known function of the matrix
What is ability to absorb large amounts of water?
500
Abundant collagen fibers hidden by a rubbery martix with glassy appearance
What is cartilage?
500
The three major things make up the nervous system
What is the brain, spinal chord and nerves?
500
The three steps of tissue repair
What is capillaries become very permeable, granulation tissue formsand surface epithelium regenerates?
500
Found commonly in the hips and breasts
What is adipose?
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