Tissue

protects body and produces secretions. (can regenerate)

tearing of the skin.

transtional

without blood

• supports, binds, protects
• provides protection for organs
• can provide nutrients to the body, stores vital nutrients such as fat or calcium

blood

erythrocytes (carry oxygen and CO2)

white blood cells (carry immunity; help fight pathogens)

Thrombocytes (blood clotting coagulations)

• loose connective tissue
• highly vascular (numerous blood vessels)
• located where the body can intercept pathogens before they enter the bloodstream. Ex: mouth

• found where a need for flexible strength exists
• (dermis layer is the skin and in ligaments and tendons)
• blood supply to fibrous connective tissue is poor.

• stores fats (lipids) as a food reserve and is found throughout the body.
• most formed prenatally and during the first year of life.

can stretch to none and one-half times its original size. (found in the larynx, large arteries, alveoli (air sacs) and the external ear).

• includes bones nad caritilage
• bone is the hardest
• gives the entire body structure , support, and mobility.

tough, elastic tissue found between segments of the spinal cord and the vertebrae.

sheets of epithelial or connective tissue that act together to cover.

line the body cavities that open to the outside

line the body cavities that open to the inside.

attached to the wall of the body cavity

covering organs

• skeletal
• fascial
• superficial
• deep

holds organs in place

toward outside

inside

two or more tissues that come together

groups of organs