The function of this tissue is protection, secretion, absorption, and excretion
What is epithelial tissue?
This kind of loose connective tissue is also known as fat
What is Adipose Tissue
This type of muscle tissue can be found in the stomach, intestines, bladder, uterus, and blood vessels.
What is smooth muscle tissue?
This cell transmits signals in nervous tissue
What are neurons?
A group of cells that perform the same function.
What is tissue?
A layer of material that connects epithelial tissue to connective tissue.
What is the basement membrane?
This type of connective tissue connects bone to muscle
What are tendons?
These two muscle types are controlled involuntarily
What are smooth and cardiac muscle
_____ receive signals and ______ send signals
dendrites; axons
Glands are made up of what type of tissue?
Stratified Cuboidal Epithelial Tissue
This type of epitheleal tissue contains goblet cells and is found in the digestive tract.
What is simple columnar?
This type of connective tissue connects bone to bone
What are ligaments?
This type of muscle movement is slow and gradual; only used by smooth muscle tissue.
Peristalsis
How do message from the brain spread to the rest of the body?
Nerve cells send and receive signals from other nerve cells.
This type of epithelial tissue has cilia
What is pseudostratified columnar?
A single layer of flattened epithelium cells would describe what kind of epithelial tissue?
Simple squamous
This type of connective tissue is the most common and looks like this.
What is loose connective tissue (areolar tissue)?
This type of muscle transmits electrical impulses to contract or relax.
What is skeletal muscle?
In which 3 locations are nerve tissue found?
Brain, spinal cord, and nerves
This type of epithelial tissue lines the bladder
What is transitional epithelium
This type of gland secretes hormones in the body.
What are endocrine glands?
This type of cartilage is found at the end of bones and soft part of the nose
What is hyaline cartilage?
This type of muscle tissue exists where?
Cells that fill spaces between neurons to insulate and support them.
Neuroglial Cells
Identify this type of tissue
What is dense irregular connective tissue?