Epithelial Tissue
Cells are tightly packed, polar, avascular, and capable of regeneration.
What are characteristics of epithelial tissue?
The most abundant and widely distributed tissue type.
What is connective tissue?
This type of muscle tissue is long, cylindrical, striated, multinucleate, and voluntary.
What is skeletal muscle?
The main cell type that sends electrical signals in nervous tissue.
What is a neuron?
This tissue type covers exposed surfaces, lines internal passageways, and forms glands.
What is epithelial tissue?
This epithelial tissue allows diffusion and filtration and is found in air sacs of lungs and kidney glomeruli.
What is simple squamous epithelium?
The three structural elements of connective tissue are ground substance, fibers, and _____.
What are specialized cells?
This type of muscle tissue is striated, involuntary, and contains intercalated discs.
What is cardiac muscle?
Supporting cells that maintain structure, repair, perform phagocytosis, and provide nutrients to neurons.
What are neuroglia?
This tissue type provides a structural framework, binds together structures, and stores energy reserves.
What is connective tissue?
This epithelium lines the urinary bladder and permits expansion and recoil.
What is transitional epithelium?
Found in tendons and ligaments, this tissue withstands pulling force in one direction.
What is dense regular connective tissue?
This muscle tissue is non-striated, involuntary, and found in hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This part of the neuron receives signals.
What are dendrites?
This tissue type is avascular but gets nutrients by diffusion.
What is epithelial tissue?
These glands release hormones into surrounding fluid.
What are endocrine glands?
This cartilage provides tensile strength and absorbs shock in intervertebral discs and pubic symphysis.
What is fibrocartilage?
This muscle type regulates the diameter of blood vessels and airways.
What is smooth muscle?
This part of the neuron conducts impulses away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
The matrix of connective tissue is made of these two components.
What are fibers and ground substance?
This epithelium appears layered but all cells touch the basement membrane.
What are characteristics of epithelial tissue?
This connective tissue supports and protects, stores calcium, and provides levers for muscle action.
What is bone (osseous tissue)?
The three types of muscle tissue.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
Function of nervous tissue.
What is transmitting electrical impulses (communication and control)?
The four main tissue types.
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue?