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| Name: Simple Squamous Epithelium Function: Allows materials to pass by diffusion and filtration Location: kidney, lining of heart, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels |
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Name: Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
Function: Secretion and absorption
Location: kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands; ovary surface |
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Name: Simple Columnar Epithelium
Function: Absorption
Location: nonciliated type lines of the digestive tract, gall bladder, excretory ducts of some glands |
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Name: Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium
Function: Secretes substances, particularly mucus
Location: nonciliated type in male's sperm-carrying ducts and ducts of large glands |
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Name: Stratified Squamous Epithelium
Function: Protects underlying tissues in areas subjected to abrasion
Location: nonkeratinized type forms the moist linings of the esophagus, mouth, and vagina |
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Name: Stratified Cuboidal Epithelium
Function: Protection
Location: Largest ducts of sweat glands, mammary glands, and salivary glands |
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Name: Transitional Epithelium
Function: Stretches readily and permits distension of urinary organ by contained urine
Location: Lines the ureters, urinary bladder, and part of the urethra |
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Name: Areolar Connective Tissue
Function: Wraps and cushions organs, plays important role in inflammation; holds and conveys tissue fluid
Location: widely distributed under the epithelia of the body |
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Name: Adipose Connective Tissue
Function: Provides reserve fluid, insulates against heat loss, supports and protects organs
Location: under skin, around kidneys and eyeballls, wihin the abdomen, in breasts |
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Name: Reticular Connective Tissue
Function: Fibers form a soft internal skeleton that supports other cell types
Location: lymphoid organs(lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen) |
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Name: Dense Regular Connective Tissue
Function: Attaches muscles to bones or to other muscles
Location: tendons, most ligaments |
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Name: Elastic Connective Tissue
Function: allows recoil of tissue allowing stretching
Location: walls of large arteries; within certain ligaments associated with the vertebral column |
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Name: Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
Function: Abel to withstand tension exerted in many directions
Location: fibrous capsules of organs and of joints; dermis of the skin |
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Name: Hyaline Cartilage
Function: Supports and reinforces; serves as resilient cushion
Location: forms most of the embryonic skeleton; covers the ends of long bones in joint cavities |
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Name: Elastic Cartilage
Function: Maintains the shape of a structure while allowing great flexibility
Location: supports the external ear (auricle); epiglottis |
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Name: Fibrocartilage
Function: Tensile strength with the ability to absorb compressive shock
Location: Intervertebral discs; pubis symphysis; discs of knee joint |
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Name: Bone (osseous tissue)
Function: Bone supports and protects
Location: bones |
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Name: Blood
Function: Transport of respiratory gases, nutrients, wastes, and other substances
Location: contained within blood vessels |
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Name: Nervous Tissue
Fucntion: Neurons transmit electrical signal froms sensory receptors and to effectors
Location: brain, spinal cord, and nerves |
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Name: Skeletal Muscle
Function: Voluntary movement; locomotion; manipulation of the environment
Location: in skeletal muscles attached to bones or occasionally to skin |
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Name: Cardiac Muscle
Function: As it contracts, cardiac muscle propels blood into the circulation; involuntary control
Location: the walls of the heart |
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Name: Smooth Muscle
Function: Propels substances or a baby along internal passageways; involuntary control
Location: mostly in the walls of hollow organs |
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