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