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Areolar | Referring to loose connective tissue, any small space, or to an areola, a circular area of marked color |
Cartilage | Type of hard connective tissue found at the ends of bones, the tip of the nose, larynx, trachea, and the embryonic skeleton |
Chondrocyte | Cell that produces and maintains cartilage |
Collagen | Flexible white protein that gives strength and resilience to connective tissue, such as bone and cartilage |
Endocrine | Referring to a gland that secretes into the bloodstream |
Epithelium | One of the four main types of tissues; forms glands, covers surfaces, and lines cavities; adj., epithelial |
Exocrine | Referring to a gland that secretes through a duct |
fascia | Band or sheet of brous connective tissue |
Fibroblast | The varies fibers in all connective tissues |
Histology | Study of tissues |
Matrix | The non living background material in a tissues; the intercellular material |
Membrane | Thin sheet of tissue |
Mucosa | Lining membrane that produces mucus; mucus membrane |
Mucus | Thick protective fluid secreted by mucous memebranes and glands, adj-, mucous |
Myelin | Fatty material that covers and insulates the axons of some neurons |
Neuroglia | Supporting and protective cells of the nervous system; glial cells |
Neuron | Conducting cell of the nervous system |
Osteocyte | Mature bone cell; maintains bone but does not produce new bone tissue |
Parietal | Pertaining to the wall of a space or cavity |
Serosa | Serous membrane; epithelial membrane that secretes a thin, watery fluid |
Stem Cell | Cell that has the potential to develop into different typesof cells |
Visceral | Organs in the ventral body cavities, especially the abdominal organs |
Adipose | Referring to fats or a type of connective tissue that stores fat |