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Tissues, Tissues
Tissues
Question | Answer |
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referring to fats or a type of connective tissue that stores fat. | adipose |
loose connective tissue, any small space, or to an areola, a circular area of marked color. | areolar |
type of hard connective tissue found at the end of bones, the tip of the nose, larynx, trachea, adn the embryoic skeleton. | cartilage |
Cell that produces and maintains cartilage. | chondrocyte |
Flexible white protein that gives strength and resilience to connective tissue, such as bone and cartilage. | collagen |
Referring to a gland that secretes into the bloodstream. | endocrine |
One of the four main types of tissues; forms glands, covers surfaces, and lines cavities; adj., epithelial. | epithelium |
Referring to a gland that secretes through a duct. | exocrine |
Band or sheet of brous connective tissue. | fascia |
cells that produce that produce the various fibers in all connective tissue. | fibroblast |
Study of tissues. | histology |
The nonliving background material in a tissue; the intercellular materia | matrix |
Thin sheet of tissue. | membrane |
Lining membrane that produces mucus; mucous membrane. | mucosa |
Thick protective uid secreted by mucous mem-branes and glands; adj., mucous. | muscus |
Fatty material that covers and insulates the axons of some neurons. | myelin |
Supporting and protective cells of the ner-vous system; glial cells. | neuroglia |
Conducting cell of the nervous system. | neuron |
Mature bone cell; maintains bone but does not produce new bone tissue. | osteocyte |
ertaining to the wall of a space or cavity. | parietal |
Serous membrane; epithelial membrane that secretes a thin, watery uid. | serosa |
Cell that has the potential to develop into different types of cells. | stem cell |
visceral |