Anatomy and Physiology
What three tissues are known as "loose connective tissues"? ✔✔areolar, adipose, and reticular
What three tissues are known as "dense connective tissues"? ✔✔dense regular, dense
irregular, and elastic
What are some of the functions of areolar connective tissue? ✔✔it wraps and cushions other
organs, it plays an important role in inflammation, holds and conveys tissue fluid, its
macrophages phagocytize bacteria.
Where are a few places in the body that areolar connective tissue can be found? ✔✔it is widely
distributed under epithelia of body, forms lamina propria of mucous membranes, packages
organs, surrounds capillaries
What is the most obvious structural feature of areolar connective tissue? ✔✔the loose
arrangement of its fibers
What connective tissue provides a reservoir of water and salts for surrounding body tissue?
✔✔areolar connective tissue
When a body region is inflamed, what does areolar tissue do? ✔✔it soaks up excess fluids and
the affected area swells and becomes puffy. This is a condition known as edema.
What connective tissue provides reserve food fuel, insulates against heat loss, and supports and
protects organs? ✔✔adipose connective tissue
Where is adipose tissue normally located? ✔✔it is normally located under skin, around kidneys
and eyeballs, and in breasts
Where is the nucleus in adipose tissue normally found? ✔✔the nucleus is pushed to the side by
a large fat droplet
What accounts for about 90% of adipose connective tissues mass? ✔✔adipocytes, also known
as fat cells
What is adipose connective tissue's structure? ✔✔It's matrix is like areolar but very sparse, it
has closely packed adipocytes, and the nucleus is pushed to the side.
Where in the body is reticular connective tissue normally found? ✔✔in the lymphoid organs
like the lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen.
What kind of fibers are found in the matrix of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔reticular fibers
What is the structure of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔network of reticular fibers in a loose
ground substance, the reticular cells lie on the network.
What is the function of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔the fibers form a soft internal skeleton
that supports other cell types including white blood cells, mast cells, and macrophages.
What three tissues are known as "loose connective tissues"? ✔✔areolar, adipose, and reticular
What three tissues are known as "dense connective tissues"? ✔✔dense regular, dense
irregular, and elastic
What are some of the functions of areolar connective tissue? ✔✔it wraps and cushions other
organs, it plays an important role in inflammation, holds and conveys tissue fluid, its
macrophages phagocytize bacteria.
Where are a few places in the body that areolar connective tissue can be found? ✔✔it is widely
distributed under epithelia of body, forms lamina propria of mucous membranes, packages
organs, surrounds capillaries
What is the most obvious structural feature of areolar connective tissue? ✔✔the loose
arrangement of its fibers
What connective tissue provides a reservoir of water and salts for surrounding body tissue?
✔✔areolar connective tissue
When a body region is inflamed, what does areolar tissue do? ✔✔it soaks up excess fluids and
the affected area swells and becomes puffy. This is a condition known as edema.
What connective tissue provides reserve food fuel, insulates against heat loss, and supports and
protects organs? ✔✔adipose connective tissue
Where is adipose tissue normally located? ✔✔it is normally located under skin, around kidneys
and eyeballs, and in breasts
Where is the nucleus in adipose tissue normally found? ✔✔the nucleus is pushed to the side by
a large fat droplet
What accounts for about 90% of adipose connective tissues mass? ✔✔adipocytes, also known
as fat cells
What is adipose connective tissue's structure? ✔✔It's matrix is like areolar but very sparse, it
has closely packed adipocytes, and the nucleus is pushed to the side.
Where in the body is reticular connective tissue normally found? ✔✔in the lymphoid organs
like the lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen.
What kind of fibers are found in the matrix of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔reticular fibers
What is the structure of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔network of reticular fibers in a loose
ground substance, the reticular cells lie on the network.
What is the function of reticular connective tissue? ✔✔the fibers form a soft internal skeleton
that supports other cell types including white blood cells, mast cells, and macrophages.
