Functions
Functions as an insulator, cushion, and food reserve
What is Adipose?
Fiber that gives connective tissue great tensile strength.
What is Collagen?
Forms the embryonic skeleton, costal cartilage, and covers the joints
What is Hyaline?
This makes hyaline cartilage different than other cartilages
What is the lack of stain pick up?
Membrane name for your literal skin
What is cutaneous membrane?
Transports vital gases and contains components crucial to immunity.
What is Blood?
Structure of this dense c.t. allows for strength when stressed in multiple directions.
What is Dense Irregular?
Structural support of the pinna of the ear and tip of the nose
What is Elastic?
Fibers and ground substance make up something called
What is matrix?
Have openings to the outside environment and are kept moist at all times
What are mucous membranes?
Maintains body temperature (of infants)
What is Brown Fat?
Fibers are tightly packed and will run in a parallel direction.
What is Dense Regular?
Makes up the pubic symphysis
What is Fibrocartilage?
Calcium salts make bone strong, while this makes bone flexible
What is collagen?
Lines the peritoneum, pleura, and pericardium
What are serous membranes?
Primarily functions as a space filler, allows for distortion without getting damaged
What is Loose CT/Areolar?
Forms a supportive internal structure of vital organs like the spleen and liver
What is Reticular?
This is something all cartilages have in common
What are: cells in lacunae? Chondrocytes? Gel matrix? perichondrium? interstitial and appositional growth?
Made of dense irregular connective tissue this is located around the exterior of bone and cartilage
What is periosteum and perichondrium?
Exists at joints
What are synovial membranes?
Connect bone to bone
What is Dense Regular CT (Ligaments specifically)?
Contains osteocytes in lacuna that get nourishment from canaliculi that connect respective lacuna to the central canal.
What is Bone (osseous tissue)?
Order of the three cartilages from most firm to least firm
What is Fibrocartilage - Hyaline- Elastic
Three main components of CT
What are cells, ground substance, and fibers?
This is the only of the membranes that should be dry
What is the cutaneous membrane?