Moves the body and its parts

Skeletal Muscle

a.k.a. voluntary muscle

Smooth (Visceral) Muscle

Cardiac Muscle

Composed of muscle fibers (cells) which containactin filaments and myosin filaments (causemovement)

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Binds organs together, providessupport and protection, fills spaces,produces blood cells, and stores fat

In the lungs, arteries, urinary bladder, internalorgans, tendons, ligaments, beneath the skin,around the kidneys, on the surface of theheart, lymph nodes

Are cartilage, bones, and blood

Differ according to thype of matrixand the abundance of fibers in thematrix

Are widely seperated by a matrix (made up of anoncellular material that can vary from beingsolid to semifluid to fluid

Connective Tissue

Recieves stimuli and conducts nerve impulses

In the brain and spinal cord (nervous system)

Contains neurons: specialized nervous cells

Contain Neuroglia

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Mainly for protection

Also for secretion, absorption,excretion, and filtration

Covers body surfaces and lines boy cavities

In the lining of the lungs, blood vessels,kidney tubules, digestive tracts, andoviducts

Squamous epithelium

Cubodial epithelium

Columnar epithelium

Occur in more than one layer

Named according to the shape of the cell

Cells lining a body cavity can beciliated and/or grandular

Tightly packed cells that form acontinous layer

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