MCAT Human Body
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MCAT Human Body
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1. Simple - stratified

2. Chondroitin sulfate - hyaluronic acid (more)

3. Composed of neurons (cells); induces a response of distant muscles or glands; regulates body processes like respiration - circulation - and digestion

4. Supports body - protects organs - produces blood cells

5. Secretion; protection

6. Toward the back (the dorsum) of the body; think dorsal dolphin fin

7. Star - shaped cells which join via their processes to form a cellular network; found abutting reticular fibers in certain glands and lymphoid tissues

8. Ducts of sweat glands; developing follicles of ovary

9. Midsagittal or median; sagittal; frontal or coronal; transverse - horizontal - or cross

10. Nearest a point of origin in general or nearest the trunk as far as the extremities are concerned; nearer the attachment to the body; nearer the midline axis

11. A vertical plane which passes from side to side; it is at right angles to the midsagittal plane and cuts the specimen into anterior and posterior components (ear to ear)

12. A hook - shaped process or eminence

13. Add support and strength; three types include collagen (white) - elastic (yellow) - and reticular fibers

14. Consists of a group of cells performing a similar function

15. Composed of several interrelated organ systems

16. Heart

17. The outermost layer - composed of connective tissue with elastic and collagenous fibers - of an artery or another structure.

18. Regulates body growth and function via hormones

19. Very elongated microvilli

20. Toward the center of the body; toward the inside

21. Nearer the surface; without or nearer the outside of the body

22. Protection

23. Most common; called fibrocyte when in flattened stellate state

24. Simple - pseudostratified - stratified

25. Located in the adventitia of blood vessels; multi - potential cells which may differentiate into various connective tissues or smooth muscle cells