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Groups of similar cells that perform a specialized function are called what?
What are Tissues
The four major tissues types are?
Epithelial, muscular, nervous and connective
What is epithelial.
The basement membrane is located between?
Epithelial and connective tissue
How would you describe a squamous-shaped cell?
Flattened, scale-like cell
Where in the body is stretchy transitional epithelium found?
What are the three types of exocrine glands we discussed in class?
apocrine, holocrine, merocrine
True or false: adipose tissue stores fat and provides cushioning to some organs.
True
Muscle tissue has the ability to do what?
Contract and produce active movement.
Which muscle tissue has many nuclei, is voluntary and has striations?
Skeletal Muscle
What are the three types of muscle tissue found in the body?
Skeletal, cardiac and smooth
Which system is composed of the skin an dits appendages?
integumentary
What are the three layers of the skin?
Epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous
What is nervous tissue specialized to do?
eccrine
When the body temperature becomes abnormally high. thermoregulatory homeostasis is maintained by?
an increase in sweat gland activity and an increase in blow flow to the skin. THis is vasodilation so the blood capillaries are increasing in size.
The secretion that lubricates and inhibits growth of bacteria on the skin is? Secreted by the sebaceous glands.
Sebum
Special smooth muscles that are in the dermis that produce "goose bumps" when contracted? They are attached to the hair follicle.
Arrector pili
The core of a hair is called the?
Medulla
Which type of connective tissue LACKS vascularization (does NOT have a rich blood supply)?
Cartilage
How would you describe a 2nd degree burn?
Blisters, severe pain, swelling
It is a burn of fullthinkness that burns through the epidermis, dermis and often times the subcutaneous layer...so the nerves are burnt off.
Protein substance that is found in hair and nails?
Keratin
Specialized cells which produce a pigment
melanocytes