Glossary
- Connective Tissue
- Type of tissue that serves to hold in place, connect, and integrate the body's organs and systems.
- Epithelial Tissue
- Type of tissue that serves primarily as a covering or lining of body parts, protecting the body; it also functions in absorption, transport, and secretion.
- Exocrine glands
- Secrete products through ducts to the surface of the skin or into the lumen of a hollow organ
- Exocrine Gland Secretions
- Merocrine, Apocrine, Holocrine
- Muscle Tissue
- Connective Tissue
- Type of tissue that serves to hold in place, connect, and integrate the body's organs and systems.
- Epithelial Tissue
- Type of tissue that serves primarily as a covering or lining of body parts, protecting the body; it also functions in absorption, transport, and secretion.
- Exocrine glands
- Secrete products through ducts to the surface of the skin or into the lumen of a hollow organ
- Exocrine Gland Secretions
- Merocrine, Apocrine, Holocrine
- Muscle Tissue
- Type of tissue that is capable of contracting and generating tension in response to stimulation; produces movement.
- Nervous Tissue
- Type of tissue that is capable of sending and receiving impulses through electrochemical signals.
- Striated
- When actin and myosin filaments are aligned in a parallel fashion and form banded patterns Type of tissue that is capable of contracting and generating tension in response to stimulation; produces movement.
- Nervous Tissue
- Type of tissue that is capable of sending and receiving impulses through electrochemical signals.
- Striated
- When actin and myosin filaments are aligned in a parallel fashion and form banded patterns
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