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Body Tissues
Epithelial, Connective, Nervous, Muscle
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
01/04/2009

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A group of cells that are similar in structure and perform a common or related function
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Tissues
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What are the 4 primary tissues?
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Epithelial, Connective, Muscle, Nervous
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What is the term used for the study of tissues
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Histology
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What tissue is a sheet of cells that coveres a body surface or lines a body cavity
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Epithelial
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The functions of the epithelial tissue are as follows: Protection, absorption, _______, excretion, _____, and sensory ________.
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filtration, secretion, perception
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The difference between statified and simple epithelial is that simple is ________, of _______ layer and statified is composed of  ______ or more layers>
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composed, one, two
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What tissue is found everywhere in the body? it is the most abundant and widely distributed of the primary tissues?

 

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Connective
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The skin consist primarily of connective tissue? Does the brain contain connective tissue?
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Yes, but very little
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The 4 main classes of connective tissue are cartilage, _____, _______, ans connective tissue proper (which includes fat and the fibrous tissue of ligaments
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Blood, bone
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All the connective tissues are highly vascularized except _________, which is avascular
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Cartilage
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Connective tissue has a extracellular matrix, which seperates it from thw living cells of the tissue. Because of this matrix, the tissue can withstand great  tension, endure ____, such as physical trauma and abrasion, that no other tissue would be able to_____
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abuses, tolerate
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Collagen, elastic, and reticular are _____ of the connective tissue that provide support.
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Fibers
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Collagen fibers are by far the ______ and most abundant.
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strongest
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Nervous tissue is the main coponent of the nervous system. The brain, _____ chord and nerves that regulates and controls body _____
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spinal, functions
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Nervous tissue consist of 2 major cell types. which one allow them to transmit electrical impulses over substantial distances within the body?
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Neurons
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These tissues are highly vascularized and are responsible for most types of body movement.
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Muscle tissue
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There are 3 kinds of muscle tissue. Skeletal, cardiac and _______.
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Smooth
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Pertaining to the 3 types of muscle. Which one forms the flesh of the body, and as they contract, they pull on bones and skin, causing body movements.
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Skeletal muscle
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Pertaining to the 3 types of muscle tissue. Which one is found ONLY in the wall of the heart?
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Cardiac muscle
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Cardiac tissue are similar to _____ tissue because they are also striated.
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Skeletal
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Cardiac tissue are braching cells that fit together tightlt ant junctions called _________ discs
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Intercalated
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What muscle got its name because there are no straitions visible?
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Smooth
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Smooth muscle have 1 or 2 nucleus?
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1
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Smooth muscle are spindle ______
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shaped.
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What muscle is found in the walls of the hollw organs other that the heart?
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Smooth
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Smooth muscle sqeezes substances through hollow organs by alternating contracting and _______
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Relaxing
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Because _____ muscle is under our conscious control, it is call ______ muscle. The other two are called _________ muscle.
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Skeletal, voluntary, involuntary
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