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| tendinous sheet that attaches a broad, flat muscle to another muscle or several bones of the skeleton |
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| What is a connective tissue suspended in a water matrix called plasma? |
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| What are red blood cells called? |
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| What transports oxygen attached to an iron containing molecule called hemoglobin? |
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| What is an iron containing molecule? |
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| What are white blood cells called? |
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| What protects the body against disease and infection? |
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| cell fragments that function in blood clotting |
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| What carry blood away from the heart? |
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| What carries blood to the heart? |
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| What are the smallest blood vessels that are one cell thick called (where exchange takes place)? |
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| What means blood filled (organs, etc with many blood vessels)? |
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| What are the types of cartilage? |
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| hylane, elastic cartilage, fibrocartilage |
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| What is the most common type of cartilage (between bones, forms most bones of skeletons, etc) |
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| What kind of cartilage makes up the auricle/pinna or outer fleshy part of ear? |
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| What kind of cartilage absorbs shock in pads between vertebrae? |
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| What is connective tissue? |
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| What is also known as osseous tissue? |
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| What secretes synovial fluid (lines joint cavity and allows free movement)? |
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| skeletal, smooth and cardiac |
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| attached to bone, contains striations (dark bands) and are voluntary |
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| located only in the heart, striated and involuntary |
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| located in walls of blood vessels, hollow organs, etc (is nonstriated and involuntary) |
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| nerve cells and neuroglia- supporting cells |
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| What has many dendrites and one axon? |
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| receives info from other neurons |
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| conducts info from dendrites to other cells |
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| tissue destruction that occurs after cells have been hurt or killed and is caused by lysosomal enzymes attacking the injured cells |
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| accumulation of debris, fluid, dead cells and necrotic tissue |
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| accumulation of pus in an enclosed space |
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| What do cancer rates increase with? |
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| What percentage of people in the US will develop cancer at some point in their lives? |
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| What percentage of cancer occurs from chemical exposure and environmental factors? |
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| What percentage of cancer comes from cigarette smoke? |
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| In the US, how many people will die from cancer every year? |
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| Cancer is second to what leading cause of death? |
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