Tissues

Terms:

  1. Epithelium tissue

  2. Connective tissue

  3. Muscle tissue

  4. Nervous tissue

  5. General patterns in the body of Epithelium tissue

  6. General features of Epithelium tissue

  7. Types of Surface Epithelium (based on arrangement of cells in layer)

  8. Types of Surface Epithelium (based on shape)

  9. Surface epithelium are classified by

Definitions

  1. Covers a body surface, lines a hollow organ or body cavity and ducts, forms glands 

  2. Protects and supports the body and body organs. Most diverse & abundant

  3. Specialized for contraction and generation of force 

  4. Responds to stimuli generating nerve impulses. Activate muscular contractions and glandular secretions

  5. Surface (covering and lining), Glandular (secreting portion of glands

  6. basal surface, apical (free) surface, lateral surface, and basement membranes

  7. Simple, Pseudostratified, Stratified

  8. Squamous, Cuboidal, Columnar, Transitional

  9. arrangement of cells in layers, shapes of cells