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| Pseudostratified Columnar |
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| filtration, diffusion, and secretion in serous membranes |
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nonciliated: secretion and absorption, secrete mucus, helps prevent distruction of stomach lining
ciliated: cilia beat in unison, moving mucus and foreign particles, help to move oocytes expelled from ovaries through fallopian tubes into uterus |
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ciliated: secrete mucus that traps foreign particles anf cilia sweep it away
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| Stratified Squamous function |
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| protect against abrasion, water loss, uv rays, and foregin envasion, defense against microbes |
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| allows urinary organs to stretch and maintain protective lining while holding variable amounts of fluid without rupturing |
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| strength, elasticity, and support |
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| reduces heat loss through skin, serves as an energy reserve, supports and protects organs |
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| forms stoma of organs, filters and removes worn-out blood cells in the spleen and microbes in lymph nodes |
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| provides strong attachment between various structures |
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| provides tensile (pulling) strength in many directions |
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| Hyaline Cartilage function |
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| reduces friction and absorbs shock at joints, provides flexibility and support, weakest type of cartilage |
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| support and joing structures together, strength and regidity make it the strongest type of cartilage |
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| Elastic Cartilage function |
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| provides strength and elasticity, maintains shape of structures |
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RBC's transport oxygen and some carbon dioxide
WBC's carry on phagocytosis and are involved in allergic reactions and immune system responses
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| support, protection, storage, houses blood-forming tissue, serves as levers that act with muscle tissue to enable movement |
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| motion, posture, heat production, protection |
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| pumps blood to all parts of the body |
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| motion (prpulsion of foods through the gastrointestinal tract, contraction of stomach and urinary bladder) |
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| exhibits sensitivity to various types of stimuli, converts stimuli into impulses (action potentials), conducts impulses to other neurons, muscle fibers, or glands |
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| a thin extracellular layer that commonly consists of the basal lamina and reticular lamina |
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| a hair or hairlike process projecting from a cell that may be used to move the entire cell or to move substances along the surface of the cell |
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| develops a tough layer of keratin in apical layer of cells and several layers deep to it. keratin helps protect skin and underlying tissues from heat, microbes, and chemicals |
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| fingerlike cytoplasmic projections that increase surface area of the plasma membrane, thus increasing the cells rate of absorption |
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| modified columnar cells that secrete mucus |
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| the space within an artery, vein, intestine, renal tube, or other tubular structure |
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| very strong and resistant to pulling forces, but are not stiff, which allows for flexibility |
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| smaller in diameter than collagen fibers, branch and join together to form a fibrous network within a tissue |
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| consist of collagen arranged as fine, branching, interwoven fivers that provide support in the walls of blood vessels and form a network around the cells in some tissues |
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| a mature bone cell that maintains the daily activities of bone tissue |
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| an irregular transverse thickening of sarcolemma that contains desmosomes, which hold cardiac muscle fibers (cells) together, and gap junctions, which aid in conduction of muscle action potentials from one fiber to the next |
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| the usually single, long process of a nerve cell that propagates a nerve impulse toward the axon terminals |
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| a neural process that carries electrical signals, usualy graded proteins, toward the cell body |
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| terminal branch of an axon where synaptic vesicles undergo exocytosis to release neurotransmitter molecules |
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| support, insulate, nourish, and protect |
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| epidermis of skin and its derivatives and nervous tissue |
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| skeleton and muscles of the body |
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| forms lining of digestive tube and its associated structures |
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