Chapter 4 Tissues

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering Chapter 4: Tissues (basic tissue types, epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissues, and microscopy concepts).

The four basic tissue types are epithelial, connective, muscle, and __.

nervous tissue

Histology is the study of __.

tissues

Tissue samples are fixed, sliced, and stained for __.

microscopy

Tissu- = __.

woven

Nervous tissue is for __.

internal communication

Muscle tissue contracts to cause __.

movement

Epithelial tissue is also known as __.

epithelium

Two main forms of epithelial tissue are covering and lining epithelium and __ epithelium.

glandular

A delicate membrane under epithelial tissue is called the __.

basement membrane

Epithelial tissue has no blood vessels and is nourished by diffusion from underlying __.

connective tissue

Epithelial cells have high regenerative capacity; regeneration is replacement of destroyed tissue with the __ type.

same

First name indicates the number of cell __.

layers

Second name indicates the cell __.

shape

Simple epithelia are __ layers thick.

single

Stratified epithelia have two or more __ thick.

layers

Squamous means __ and scale-like.

flattened

Cuboidal means __; columnar is tall, column-like.

box-like

Simple squamous epithelium functions to allow materials to pass by __.

diffusion

Location of simple squamous epithelium includes kidney glomeruli and air sacs of __.

lungs

Simple cuboidal epithelium functions in __ and absorption.

secretion

Simple columnar epithelium lines the __ tract.

digestive

Simple columnar epithelium may have goblet cells and bear __.

microvilli

Pseudostratified columnar epithelium is typically __ and lines the trachea.

ciliated

Transitional epithelium lines the ureters, bladder, and part of the __.

urethra

Embryonic connective tissue is called __.

mesenchyme

The connective tissue __ is made of ground substance and fibers.

matrix

The three types of connective tissue fibers are __, elastic, and reticular.

collagen

Immature connective tissue cells are called __ cells.

blast

Dense regular connective tissue contains mostly parallel __ fibers.

collagen

Dense regular connective tissue is designed to withstand tensile stress in one __.

direction

Dense irregular connective tissue resists tension in multiple __.

directions

Elastic connective tissue contains a high proportion of __ fibers.

elastic

Hyaline cartilage contains chondrocytes in __.

lacunae

Elastic cartilage maintains shape and is found in the external __ and epiglottis.

ear

Fibrocartilage provides tensile strength and is located in intervertebral discs, pubic symphysis, and __ joints.

knee

Bone tissue is arranged into __ around a central canal.

osteons

Bone tissue is very well __ vascularized.

vascularized

Blood is a fluid connective tissue with plasma as its __.

matrix

Skeletal muscle cells are long, cylindrical, multinucleate, and show visible __.

striations

Cardiac muscle cells have specialized junctions called __ discs.

intercalated