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Muscle Tissue, Nervous Tissue, and Inflammatory Response
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
09/03/2011

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What are the three types of muscle tissue?
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cardiac, skeletal, and smooth
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Muscle cell= ____ = muscle fiber
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myocyte
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What is an easily identifiable characteristic of skeletal muscle cells?
Definition
parallel stripes
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Skeletal muscles are used to move ____ and ____
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bone and skin
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skeletal cells have multiple ____
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nuclei
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Movement:
Skeletal muscles only ____ and ____
Definition
pull and contract
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What do intercalated discs of cardiac tissue consist of?
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Proteins and connexons (gap junctions)
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What are the two components of nervous tissue?
Definition
neurons and neuroglia ("glia")
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Define somatic
Definition
of the body
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What is another name for the axons of a nerve?
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neuron process
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What is edema?
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Accumulation of fluid in the CT (swelling)
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What are the two types of wound healing?
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regeneration and fibrosis
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Identify the tissue with Good, Poor, and No regeneration capactiy
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Good: epithelium and bone; Poor: skeletal muscle and cartilage; None: cardiac muscle and nervous tissue
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What are two characteristics of smooth muscle?
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