Term | Definition |
Atherosclerosis | A disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls. |
Collagen | The main structural protein found in animal connective tissue, yielding gelatin when boiled |
Cuboidal | A epithelium cell having a cube like shape |
Cutaneous membranes | Soft outer covering of vertebrates & guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments, & internal organs. |
Epithelial tissue | Covers the whole surface of the body. |
Genitourinary | Of or relating to the genital and urinary organs. |
Glia | The connective tissue of the nervous system, consisting of several different types of cell associates with neurons. |
Homeostasis | The tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, specially as maintained by physiological processes. |
Ketones | A organic compound containing a carbonyl group. |
Ketonuria | The excretion of abnormally large amounts of ketone bodies in the urine, characteristic of diabetes mellitus, starvation. or other medical conditions. |
Meninges | Membranes that develop the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system. |
Melanoma | Skin cancer (most serious) |
Neurons | A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulse a nerve cell. |
Parietal | Of relating to attached to or denoting the wall of the body or of a body cavity or hollow structure. |
Pseudostratified | Type of epithelium that though comprising only a single layer of cell. has its cells nucleus positioned in a manner suggestive of stratified epithelium. |
Serous membranes | A mesothelial tissue that lines certain internal cavities of the body forming a smooth transparent, two layered membrane lubricated by a fluid derived from serum. |
Skeletal muscle | Form of striated muscle tissue which is under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. |
Squamous | Cancer caused by an uncontrolled grown of abnormal squamous cell. |
Stratified | Epithelium made up of series of layers the cells of each varying in size and shape. |
Striated muscle | Muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bounders, so that their diff. regions from stripes visible in a microscope.. |
Synovial membrane | Soft tissue found between the joint capsule and the joint cavity of synovial joints. |
Synovium | Same previous |
Transitional | passage from one condition or one part to another. |
Visceral | Of or relating to the viscera. |