Lecture 1
The regional name for the cheek
What is buccal?
Life process that can be defined as the ability of an organism to grow cells that can change from a unspecialized to a specialized form.
What is differentiation?
Type of epithelium that can be found in kidney tubules, and ducts of many glands
What are fibers and ground substance?
Property of muscle tissue that can be defined as the ability to be stretched without damaging the tissue
What is extensibility?
The cavity containing the all the viscera in the thoracic cavity (except the lungs)
What is the mediastinum?
Body system that contains the spleen, thymus, red bone marrow, and tonsils
What is the lymphatic (immune) system?
Structure on the apical surface of epithelium that functions to increase the surface area available for absorption. Found in the intestines
What are microvilli?
Type of fiber that is often found in stroma of organs and a key component of basement membranes.
What are reticular fibers?
Type of smooth muscle that allow finer motor control
What are mutli-unit smooth muscles?
The body is the in this position when lying face up
What is supine?
Erythropoiesis (making of red blood cells) is an example of this type of feedback system
What is a negative feedback system?
Type of connective tissue found in dee regions of the skin, periosteum, heart valves, and fibrous pericardium. Be specific
What is dense irregular connective tissue?
What are sarcomeres?
What is ascites (peritoneal effusion)?
A pathological condition defined as the loss of extracellular fluid into a space that breaks the equilibrium between the intracellular fluid (ICF) and the extracellular fluid (ECF).
Protein molecule found in adherens junctions
Type of cartilage that makes up the intervertebral discs.
What is fibrocartilage?
Individual cardiac muscles fibers are connected via these structure that contain gap junctions
What are intercalated discs?
If the abdominal region was divided like a tic-tac-toe grid, this region is located at the top of the center column.
What is the epigastric region?
The process of breaking down molecules
Single celled gland that secretes mucus
What is a goblet cell?
Name the connective tissue portion of the skin
What is the dermis?
What is cardiac muscle?