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| Free surface of the EPITHELIAL TISSUE |
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| Cover body surfaces and line body cavities |
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| Deeper, attached surface of an epithelium |
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| finger-like extensions of the APICAL SURFACE of some epithelia |
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| What is the FUNCTION of the MICRO VILLI? |
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| Motile hairlike projections of the APICAL SURFACE of some epithelia |
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| What is the FUNCTION of CILIA? |
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| propelling substances along their surface |
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| What is the RETICULAR LAMINA COMPOSED of? |
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| Thin supporting sheet lying adjacent to the basal surface of an epithelium |
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| What is the BASAL LAMINA COMPOSED of? |
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| Mostly glycoprotein along with some collagen fibers |
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| What is the FUNCTION of the BASAL LAMINA? |
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| Selective filter for molecules coming from the underlying loose connective tissue |
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| Sheet of thick collagen fibers that the BASAL LAMINA is connected to. |
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| Simple squamous epithelium that lines the inner walls of lymphatic vessels, blood vessels, and heart chambers |
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| Simple squamous epithelium that covers the outer surface of visceral organs and lines major body cavities |
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| composed of the BASAL LAMINA and the RETICULAR LAMINA and binds EPITHELIAL TISSUES to underlying loose connective tissue. |
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