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Classification of Tissues
Anatomy & Physiology Chapter 6: Classification of Tissues
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
09/20/2016

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Simple squamous epithelium
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Simple cuboidal epithelium
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Simple columnar epithelium
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Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
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Stratified squamous epithelium
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Transitional epithelium
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Areolar
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Adipose
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Hyaline
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Fibrocartilage
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Bones
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Blood
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Nervous tissue
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Skeletal muscle
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Cardiac muscle
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Smooth muscle
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Epithelium
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lines body cavities and covers the body's external surface
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Muscle
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pumps blood, flushes urne out of the body, allows one to swing a bat
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Nervous tissue
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transmits electrical signals
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Connective tissue
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anchors, packages, and supports body organs
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Epithelium
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cells may absorb, secrete, and filter
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Nervous tisse
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most involved in regulating and controlling body functions
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Muscle
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major function is to contract
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Epithelium
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synthesizes hormones
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Connective tissue
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includes nonliving extracellular matrix
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Connective tissue
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most widespread tissue in the body
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Nervous tissue
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forms nerves and the brain
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Stratified squamous
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lining of the esophagus
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Simple columnar
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lining of the stomach
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Simple squamous
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alveolar sacs of lungs, forms the thin serous membranes; a single layer of flattened cells
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Simple cuboidal
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tubules of the kidney
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Pseudostratified ciliated columnar
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lining of the trachea
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Transitional
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lining of bladder; peculiar cells that have the ability to slide over each other
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Skeletal muscle
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voluntarily controlled, striated, has several nuclei per cell, found attached to bones, allows you to direct your eyeballs, contains long nonbranching cylindrical cells, and concerned with locomotion of the body as a whole
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Cardiac muscle
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involuntarily controlled, striated, has a single nucleus in each cell, contains branching cylindrical cells, has intercalated discs, changes the internal volume of an organ as it contacts, and tissue of the heart
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Smooth muscle
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involuntarily controlled has a single nucleous in each cell, found in the walls of the stomach uterus and arteries, contains spindle shaped cells, changes the internal volume of an organ as it contracts
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