Epithelial Tissue
This epithelial classification term means one layer of cells.
What is simple?
The three components of connective tissue are cells, fibers, and this.
What is the extracellular matrix?
This muscle type is voluntary and attached to bones.
What is skeletal muscle?
The membrane that makes up the skin.
What is the cutaneous membrane?
The first step in tissue repair where capillaries become leaky.
What is inflammation?
This shape of epithelial cell is flat and found in capillaries and alveoli.
What is squamous?
This loose connective tissue acts as packing material and is most abundant.
What is areolar tissue?
This muscle type is branched, striated, and found in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
This serous membrane layer lines body cavities.
What is the parietal layer?
Fragile new capillaries and collagen formation describe this stage.
What is granulation tissue formation?
This type of epithelium appears multilayered but is actually only one layer.
What is pseudostratified columnar?
This connective tissue stores energy and insulates organs.
What is adipose tissue?
This muscle type is non-striated and lines hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle?
This membrane lines tracts that open to the exterior and produces mucus.
What is a mucous membrane?
A benign tumor has this suffix added to the tissue name.
What is -oma?
These hairlike extensions move substances across the cell surface.
What are cilia?
This type of cartilage is strongest and found in the knee and between vertebrae.
What is fibrocartilage?
The main functional cell of nervous tissue.
What is a neuron?
This membrane lines joints and secretes lubricating fluid.
What is a synovial membrane?
This malignant tumor arises from epithelial tissue and accounts for about 90% of cancers.
What is a carcinoma?
These junctions prevent cells from being pulled apart, like velcro.
What are desmosomes?
These bone cells are mature and trapped in hard matrix.
What are osteocytes?
The part of the neuron that carries impulses away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
Serous membranes reduce friction by secreting this fluid.
What is serous fluid?
The spread of cancer through blood or lymph is called this.
What is metastasis?