1. Connective Tissue Chart
Mrs. Donohue

2. Blood Cells – start as blasts
Erythrocytes
Carry oxygen & carbon dioxide
Leukocytes
Monocytes – phagocytic
Neutrophils-fight bacterial infections
Lymphocytes – fight viruses
Thrombocytes – clot blood

3. Bones L – osteocyte – cell Osteocyte cell come from osteoblasts
Osseous Tissue

4. Connective Tissue
Principal stem cell: fibroblast

5. Dense Connective - Tendons
Regular
Location: Connect muscle to bone
Function: support and protection
Avascular
Point to fibers – run parallel to movement

6. Dense Connective - Ligaments
Regular
Location: Connect bone to bone
Function: support and protection
avascular

7. Dense Connective – Skin - Dermis
irregular
Location: Inside layer of skin
Function: support and protection
vascular

8. Loose Connective - Areolar
Location: all through the body
Function: binds skin to muscle
Very vascular
Provides nutrients to skin

9. Loose Connective – Adipose-fat
Location: all through the body
Concentrated beneath the skin
Heart, kidneys, & mammary glands
Function: protection
warmth
Food reserve (energy)
nucleus

10. Loose Connective - Reticular
Location: lymph nodes, liver, spleen, and bone marrow
Function:
phagocytic
immunity

11. Connective – Cartilage
Avascular
Hard to get nutrition
Condrocytes – make fibers

12. Connective – Cartilage: Hyaline
Most abundant
Location: end of bone
Respiratory tract
Rib cage
Function:
Support
protection

13. Connective – Cartilage-Elastic
Location: pinna (outer ear)
Epiglottis
Auditory canal
Function:
Flexibility
strength

14. Connective – Cartilage - Fibrocartilage
Matrix reinforced with collagen fibers
Location: intervertebral discs
Function:
durable
Withstand tension and compression
reversable