Exam 4: The Integumentary System

Connective tissue that must resist forces pulling it from many different directions without stretching would most likely be

When unstretched, transitional epithelium looks most like epithelium.

The brain and spinal cord are composed primarily of this tissue type.

Glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are components of

The type of cell junction that closes off the space between epithelial cells, thereby limiting the passage of small molecules, is the

Cancer can arise from each of the following except

Unlike other connective tissues, bone is not considered to be a living tissue.

Which major category of tissues has the most diverse and most numerous types of tissue?

Figure 4.1 Use the diagram above to answer the following questions. -Which letter on the diagram indicates motile structural elements of the epithelial membrane?

The type of cell junction that permits small sugar molecules and ions to pass from the cytoplasm of one cell to that of another is a

Microvilli can perform all of the following functions except

The best definition of fibrosis is

During repair of a scrape or cut through the skin, a blood clot is replaced with collagen-rich granulation tissue in a process called

Linker proteins in the extracellular space join cytoplasmic plaques on adjacent epithelial cells in this type of cell junction.

Ligaments consist primarily of which kind of connective tissue?

Fat is a form of tissue.

Use logic to deduce which of the following tissues is on the anterior surface of a personʹs eyeball.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the inflammatory response?

An epithelium in which the basal layer of cells is cuboidal and the apical layer has cells that are thin, flat and irregular in shaper is a epithelium.

This term refers to the accumulation of fluid at a site of inflammation.