What acts as a cushion for your internal organs?

Hypodermis: the deepest layer of skin helps insulate the body and cushion internal organs. The hypodermis is composed of adipose tissue that stores excess energy as fat.

What forms the embryonic skeleton and the surfaces of bones at the joints?

Hyaline cartilage is found lining bones in joints (articular cartilage). It is also present inside bones, serving as a center of ossification or bone growth. In addition, hyaline cartilage forms the embryonic skeleton.

What type of tissue composes basement membranes?

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Term ATTACHES BONES TO BONES AND MUSCLE TO BONES Definition DENSE FIBROUS CONNECTIVE TISSUE
Term FORMS THE HIP BONE Definition OSSEOUS TISSUE
Term COMPOSES BASEMENT MEMBRANES; A SOFT PACKAGING TISSUE WITH A JELLYLIKE MATRIX Definition ARREOLAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

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What tissue provides great strength through parallel bundles of Collagenic fibers?

Mrs. T’s Connective Tissue Cards

Question Answer
provides great strength through parallel bundles of collagenic fibers dense fibrous regular
matrix hard due to calcium and hydroxyapatite salts osseous
connect muscle to bone tendons
connect bone to bone ligaments

What is needed for growth and repair of body cells?

Protein is a nutrient used to make and repair our body cells (like blood and muscle cells).

What is the largest organ in the body?

The skin The skin is the body’s largest organ.

What does mesenchyme give rise?

Mesenchyme directly gives rise to most of the body’s connective tissues, from bones and cartilage to the lymphatic and circulatory systems. Furthermore, the interactions between mesenchyme and another tissue type, epithelium, help to form nearly every organ in the body.

What type of connective tissue acts as a storage depot for fat?

adipose tissue: Connective tissue that stores fat and cushions and insulates the body.

Which joint is classified as Diarthrodial?

Diarthrodial Joint Examples Hinge joints – e.g. the elbow (between the humerus and the ulna) and knee. Pivot joints – e.g the wrist. Condyloid joints (or ellipsoidal joints) – e.g. the thumb (between the metacarpal and carpal) Saddle joints – e.g. the shoulder and hip joints.

What is the basement membrane of the skin?

The boundary between the two skin compartments provides the basal lamina or basement membrane (BM), a highly specialized ECM structure, which physically separates the two compartments rendering primarily a stabilizing, though still dynamic interface and a diffusion barrier [12–19].

Is the basement membrane acellular?

Basement membranes (BMs) are highly specialized extracellular matrices (sECMs) forming thin acellular layers that underlie cells and separate the cells from and connect them to their interstitial matrix [5].

Is the basement membrane living or nonliving?

Basement membrane is a non-cellular structure which consists of two layers: (i) Basal Lamina: It is outer thin layer (near the epithelial cells), composed of mucopolysaccharides and glycoproteins, both secreted by epithelial cells.

What tissue allows you to smile?

13 Cards in this Set

Forms mucous, serous, and epidermal membranes Epithelium
Allows you to smile, grasp, swim, ski, and shoot and arrow Muscle
Characterized by having large amounts of nonliving matrix Connective
Most widely distributed tissue type in the body Connective
Forms the brain and spinal cord Nervous

Which is the liquid connective tissue?

Blood Blood and lymph are fluid connective tissues. Cells circulate in a liquid extracellular matrix.

What type of connective tissue insulates the body?

adipose tissue Areolar and adipose tissue are both examples of loose connective tissue. Together they form the subcutaneous layer of the skin that attaches our skin to the tissues and organs underneath and which also insulates the body against changes in temperature.

What foods repair cells?

8 Alkaline Foods To Repair and Renew Your Body Cells

What food is good for growth and repair?

11 Foods That Make You Taller

Can you repair your cells?

Cells are generally soft, squishy, and easily damaged. However, many can repair themselves after being punctured, torn, or even ripped in half when damaged due to the normal wear-and-tear of normal physiology or as a result of injury or pathology.

What is the smallest organ in your body?

the Pineal gland Therefore, the Pineal gland is the smallest organ in the body. Note: Pineal gland also plays a role in the regulation of female hormone levels, and it affects fertility and the menstrual cycle. Its shape resembles a pine cone hence the name.

What’s the strongest muscle in your body?

masseter The strongest muscle based on its weight is the masseter. With all muscles of the jaw working together it can close the teeth with a force as great as 55 pounds (25 kilograms) on the incisors or 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) on the molars.

What is the hardest substance in the human body?

Tooth enamel 1. Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the body. The shiny, white enamel that covers your teeth is even stronger than bone. This resilient surface is 96 percent mineral, the highest percentage of any tissue in your body – making it durable and damage-resistant.

What does mesenchyme look like?

Mesenchyme is characterized morphologically by a prominent ground substance matrix containing a loose aggregate of reticular fibers and unspecialized mesenchymal stem cells.

What does ectoderm give rise to?

The ectoderm gives rise to the skin, the brain, the spinal cord, subcortex, cortex and peripheral nerves, pineal gland, pituitary gland, kidney marrow, hair, nails, sweat glands, cornea, teeth, the mucous membrane of the nose, and the lenses of the eye (see Fig. 5.3).

Where is mesenchyme found?

bone marrow Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are adult stem cells traditionally found in the bone marrow. However, mesenchymal stem cells can also be isolated from other tissues including cord blood, peripheral blood, fallopian tube, and fetal liver and lung.

What are the 7 types of connective tissue?

7 Types of Connective Tissue

Which property is most consistent in all connective tissues?

Collagen: Collagen fibers are the strongest and most abundant of all the connective tissue fibers. Collagen fibers are fibrous proteins and are secreted into the extracellular space and they provide high tensile strength to the matrix.

Which connective tissue attaches bone to bone and muscle to bone?

Tendons A tendon is a fibrous connective tissue which attaches muscle to bone. Tendons may also attach muscles to structures such as the eyeball. A tendon serves to move the bone or structure.

How are all joints classified?

Joints can be classified: Histologically, on the dominant type of connective tissue. ie fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial. Functionally, based on the amount of movement permitted.

What are the 3 structural classifications of joints?

There are three structural classifications of joints: fibrous, cartilaginous, and synovial.

What is an example of a fibrous joint?

Examples of fibrous joints include: sutures between skull bones, syndesmoses between certain long bones e.g. the tibia and fibula. gomphoses that attach the roots of human teeth to the upper- and lower- jaw bones.