Anatomy and Physiology Study Set 1

Blood is not a connective tissue because it wanders around the body and is never in a fixed location.

Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets that are suspended in a fluid extracellular matrix called plasma.

What is a characteristic of the type of epithelial tissue that lines the urinary bladder and many urinary passageways?

Bone cells are also called osteocytes.

Muscle tissue conducts nerve impulses from one neuron to another and coordinates body activities.

What is/are characteristic(s) of the tissue that forms the inner lining of the respiratory passages?

A skeletal muscle fiber contains many nuclei.

Typcially, epithelial tissues do not have blood vessels.

What tissue would allow for gas exchange between the blood and the air in the lungs?

A neuron is a type ofneuroglia.

The tissue that forms the outermost layer of the skin is a type of connective tissue.

A basement membrane anchors what two tissues together?

The cell membrane projections that move mucus and captured particles upward and out of the airways are called microvilli.

Typically, carcinomas originate from which type of tissue?

Merocrine glands and apocrine glands are examples of endocrine glands.

Stratified squamous epithelium lines the oral cavity.

All exocrine glands secrete their product into ducts that open onto surfaces.

A gland may be composed of a single cell.

Bone cells (osteocytes) are arranged in concentric circles around longitudinal tubes (centralcanals).

What is the function of epithelial tissue?