Tissue Types and Functions

What does epithelial tissue do?

Covers internal and external surfaces and forms continuous sheets that contain no blood vessels.

What is muscle tissue?

Tissue that is the movement specialist of the body.

What do axons do?

Transmits a nerve impulse away from the cell body.

What tissue is the most abundant and widely distributed tissue in the body?

connective tissue

Muscle tissue has a higher degree of what than other tissues?

contractility

What are the 4 basic tissue types?

epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue.

What does nervous tissue consist of?

nerve cells or neurons.

How many types of basic tissue types are there?

4

How is epithelial tissue classified?

According to its shape and arrangement.

What do dendrites do?

Carry impulses toward the cell body.

What's included in connective tissue?

Adipose, dense fibrous, bone, cartilage, and blood.

What are tissues?

Groups of specialized cells joined together to perform a function.

What tissue is slow to heal when injured?

Muscle tissue

What does nervous tissue do?

Provides rapid communication between the body structures and controls body functions.

What are types of muscle tissue?

Skeletal (striated voluntary), smooth (non-striated involuntary or visceral), cardiac (striated involuntary)

What does connective tissue do?

Supports and connects organs and other tissues.