Anatomy & Physiology Chapter 4
The connective tissue that is a storage location for lipid is ____ tissue
Adipose
The type of connective tissue found beneath the skin, within the breast, and on the surface of the heart is ____ tissue
Adipose
What type of connective tissue is the storage location for triglycerides?
Adipose
What are the functions of areolar tissue?
Allow passage of nerves and blood vessels through other tissues, binding of epithelia to deeper tissues, provide an arena for immune defense
Synovial membranes ______
Are associated with joints
Binding of epithelia to deeper tissues and providing an arena for immune defense are functions of the loose connective tissue called ____ tissue
Areolar
The loose connective tissue that attaches skin to underlying tissue is called ____ tissue
Areolar
The loose connective tissue that is the "loose packing" material of most organs and attaches epithelial tissue to deeper tissue is called ____ tissue
Areolar
What type of loose connective tissue is found around blood vessels and nerves and under epithelium, holding these structures in place?
Areolar
What type of tissue is a loose connective tissue that exhibits loosely organized fibers of all types, abundant blood vessels and many cell types?
Areolar
Indicate functions of connective tissue in the body
Attachment of one tissue to another, lends support, transport of nutrients, gases, enzymes and hormones, storage of high-energy molecules and minerals.
Where is fibrocartilage found?
Between vertebraes
Which is a type of fluid connective tissue?
Blood
Identify the types of supportive connective tissue
Bone and cartilage
Which are types of supporting connective tissues?
Bone and cartilage
Identify the fiber type of connective tissue that is strong, flexible, and resists stretching
Collagen
The fiber types that are strong and flexible but resist stretching are ____ fibers
Collagen
What type of fibers are found in areolar connective tissue?
Collagen, elastic
What are the three types of protein fibers in fibrous connective tissue?
Collagenous, reticular, and elastic
Support and binding tissues together are examples of functions for ____ tissue
Connective
The class of tissue that consists of cells separated from each other by large amounts of extracellular matrix is called ____ tissue
Connective
What class of tissue is composed of widely-spaced cells and abundant extracellular material?
Connective
What class of connective tissue does areolar, adipose, dense collagenous and elastic collagenous represent?
Connective tissue
What class of connective tissue does areolar, adipose, dense collagenous, reticular, and elastic collagenous represent?
Connective tissue proper
Identify the types of connective tissue proper
Dense collagenous, dense elastic, areolar, adipose, reticular
What type of connective tissue contains thick bundles of collagen that run in random directions?
Dense irregular
What type of connective tissue forms tendons that help to tightly bind bones together?
Dense regular
What type of connective tissue is found in tendons and ligaments?
Dense regular
Mesenchyme is known as what type of tissue?
Embryonic connective tissue
Where is hyaline cartilage found?
Ends of bones, tip of nose
What are the functions of macrophages?
Engulf foreign particles, destroy dead or dying self cells, activate the immune system when they encounter antigens
True or False: Blood is a type of supportive connective tissue
False
True or false: Extracellular matrix includes protein fibers, cytoplasm, and ground substance
False
True or false: The collagenous fibers of dense irregular connective tissue are parallel and closely packed
False
True or False: Cartilage heals slowly because is it very vascular
False. Cartilage is avascular, which is why it heals slowly.
What forms the matrix of blood?
Fluid
What class of connective tissue does blood and hematopoietic tissue represent?
Fluid connective tissue
Where is elastic cartilage found?
Frame of ear
Which is a characteristic of cartilage?
Has a perichondrium
Identify the types of fluid connective tissue
Hematopoietic tissue, blood
Three types of cartilage are _____
Hyaline, elastic, fibrocartilage
Under a microscope, you observe a tissue that consists of an open lacy network of relatively few protein fibers with widely scattered cells. What type of tissue would you be observing?
Loose
Areolar and adipose tissue are two examples of ______
Loose connective tissue
Areolar tissue is a type of ____ connective tissue whereas tendons and ligaments are composed of ____ regular connective tissue.
Loose, dense
Consider the arrangement of collagen fibers within these tissues: Areolar tissue is a type of ______ connective tissue whereas tendons and ligaments are comprised of ______ connective tissue
Loose, dense
Cells found in connective tissue that engulf foreign particles, activate the immune system, and destroy dead or dying cells are called ______
Macrophages
Embryonic connective tissue is called _____
Mesenchyme
List the three major types of tissue membranes
Mucous, synovial, serous
The viscous secretion produced by goblet cells is called
Mucus
A cell that produces bone is a(n) ____
Osteoblast
What is the term for a mature bone cell?
Osteocyte
An osteoblast becomes surrounded by its own matrix and entrapped in a lacuna creating a mature bone cell called a(n) ____
Osteocytes
What is the function of an osteoblast?
Produces bone
What are the functions of serous fluid?
Protect internal organs from friction, reduce friction between serous membrane layers
Indicate the three components of extracellular matrix
Proteins, ground substance, fluid
The collagenous fibers of dense _____ connective tissue are parallel and closely packed
Regular
The type of connective tissue that helps to tightly bind bones together, resist stress, attach muscle to bone, and transfer muscular tension to bones is called dense ____ collagenous tissue
Regular
Indicate the three protein fiber types found in fibrous connective tissue
Reticular fibers, elastic fibers, collagenous fibers
A watery, low-protein fluid that moistens serous membranes and reduces friction is ____ fluid
Serous
What are the three major types of tissue membranes?
Serous, mucous, synovial
What class of connective tissue does bone and cartilage represent?
Supporting connective tissue
What major category of tissue membrane is composed only of connective tissue?
Synovial
Dense regular connective tissue is found in ______
Tendons and ligaments
True or false: A tissue that consists of an open lacy network of relatively few protein fibers with widely scattered cells would be classified as a type of loose connective tissue
True
Areolar tissue is found ______
Widely distributed throughout the body
Where is adipose tissue found?
Within breasts, within the orbits, deep to the dermis of the skin
The most abundant type of adipose tissue is ____ adipose tissue
Yellow
What is the most abundant type of adipose tissue?
Yellow adipose
