Epithelial Tissue
A single, flat layer of cells packed together like floor tiles.
What is simple squamous?
These are called nerve cells
What are neurons?
These are three types of muscle tissue.
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle?
This type of tissue lines the bladder due to its ability to stretch and relax.
What is transitional epithelium?
This anchors epithelial tissue to connective tissue.
What is the basement membrane?
Nervous tissue is found in these 3 areas.
What is the brain, spinal cord and nerves?
This type of muscle tissue is voluntary.
What is skeletal muscle?
What is blood?
These two types of muscle tissues are involuntary.
What is cardiac and smooth?
This type of tissue consists of long cells and has many layers.
What is stratified columnar epithelium?
This type of tissue conducts impulses throughout the body.
What is nervous tissue?
This type of muscle is responsible for the involuntary movements of the stomach and intestines.
What is smooth muscle?
Intervertebral discs are composed of fibrocartilage found in this part of the body.
What is the backbone or spine?
These types of muscle tissues are striated.
What is skeletal and cardiac?
Name 3 functions of epithelial tissues.
What are excretion, absorption, secretion and protection?
Nervous tissue sends and receives messages in order to ________________ with other parts of the body.
What is communicate?
This type of muscle tissue has cells with many nuclei?
What is skeletal muscle?
This is the name of a bone cell.
What is an osetocyte?
Bone cells are arranged in concentric circles around long cylinder-shaped units are called ____________.
What are osteons?
When talking about epithelial tissue ____________ refers to tissues that have many layers, whereas ________________ refers to tissues that are just a single layer.
What is stratified; simple.
These are the 4 basic types of body tissue.
What is epithelial, connective, nervous and muscle tissue?
In addition to being striated, this microscopic feature is only found in cardiac tissue and is a band that connects two cardiac muscles together.
What is intercalated discs?
This is the main reason that it is better to break a bone rather than tear a tendon or ligament.
What is bones have a better blood supply?
These two types of muscles tissue are uninucleated.
What is cardiac and smooth muscle tissue?