Tissue & Tissue Types
What is a tissue?
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A tissue is made up of a large number of cells
that is specialized to perform a specific function.
What is inter-cellular
space in the tissue
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the spaces between cells are, usually filled
with extracellular fluid
What are main four
types of tissues?
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Epithelial Tissue
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Connective Tissue (includes bone and cartilage)
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Muscle Tissue
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Nerve Tissue
What are Excitable
Tissues?
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Muscle and Nerve tissues are called EXCITABLE
TISSUES due to the specialized property of their cell membrane
Why it’s called
Excitable Tissue ?
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The property of being able to stimulate the cell
membrane to generate and transmit and electrochemical signal
What is Epithelial
Tissue ?
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Tissues cover the body and linings of tubes and
cavities in the body.
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The cells usually lie on a basement membrane
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Cells of this tissue type are closely packed and
therefore intercellular substance is minimal
What are main two types
of epithelial tissues
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Simple Epithelium – only one layer of cells
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Stratified Epithelium – Multiple layers
What are main 04 groups
Simple Epithelium tissue based on shape
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Squamous Epithelium (Pavement) – flat cells (Heart
– Blood & Lymph vessels – Lung Alveoli)
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Cuboidal Epithelium – cube like cells (Tubules
of the kidney – Some glands)
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Columnar Epithelium – tall cells (Lining the
organs of the gastro intestinal tract)
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Ciliated Epithelium – cells with cilia on the
free surface (Respiratory passage, Fallopian tubes)
What are main 02 groups
Stratified Epithelium tissue
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Stratified Squamous Epithelium (Skin)
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Transitional Epithelium (bladder)
What is
pseudo-stratified columnar epithelium
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The tissue cell nuclei are at different levels
in a section they appear stratified but in fact there is only one layer of
cells (Found in the Respiratory Tract)
What are main 04 types
of Connective Tissue? and main function
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Tissues that provide support, connect or
separate different types of tissues in the body
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Loose Connective Tissue:
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Areolar Tissue– under the skin, between muscles
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Adipose Tissue (Fat): it is specialized but a
loose connective
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Dense Connective Tissue:
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Fibrous tissue – In ligaments,
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Specialized Connective Tissue (Dense):
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Cartilage
Tissue
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Bone Tissue
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Blood and Lymphatic
How Connective tissue
differ from epithelial tissues?
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cells are spread wide in connective tissue ,and a large amount of
intercellular substance (matrix)
03 Types of cartilage
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Hyaline cartilage – Provides Flexibility (Nose)
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Elastic cartilage – Greater Flexibility (Ears)
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Fibrous cartilage – Strength (intervertebral
Discs)
02 types of bone
tissues
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Compact Bone – appears solid
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Cancellous Bone – more spongy in appearance
What are the main 03 Types of Muscle
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Skeletal Muscle
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Smooth Muscle
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Cardiac Muscle
What is Neurons ?
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Nerve cells are called Neurons
Main parts of neuron
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Dendrites
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Axon
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Nucleus
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Nerve Ending
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node of Ranvier
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myelin sheath
What is Synapse
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The space between two nerve endings (or a nerve
ending and a nerve cell body)
