Location: In peripheral nerves and in organs of the central nervous system, brain, and spinal cord.
Function: Receives stimuli and sends impulses to the spinal cord and Brain.
Appearance: Consists of neurons, dendrites, and axons that form a long line of connectivity.
Muscle
Skeletal Muscle
Location: Attached to the Skeleton.
Function: Moves the body.
Appearance: Is striated and conatins long, thin, multi nucleated fibres that are crossed with a regular pattern of fine red and white lines.
Cardiac Muscle
Location: Walls of the heart.
Function: Controls the contraction and relaxation of the heart.
Appearance: Contains bundles that are branched like a tree but is connected at both ends.
Smooth Muscle
Location: In the walls of hollow visceral organs.
Function: Controls involuntary movements.
Appearance: Contains small smooth muscle cells that our spindle shaped and have no striations but have bundles of thin and thick filaments.
Connective
Bone Tissue
Location: Throughout the body.
Function: Locomotion, support and protection of soft tissues, calcium and phosphate storage, and harboring of bone marrow.
Appearance: Concentric rings of matrix that surround central canals that contain blood vessels that inside contain lacunae that are connected to each other through canalicula.
Blood Tissue
Location: Around every blood vessel.
Function: Transports Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide.
Appearance: Contains a fluid matrix and no fibers.
Fibrocartilage
Location: Between Vertebrae
Function: Shock absorber
Appearance: Tough, dense, and fibrous material.
Elastic Cartilage
Location: External Ear and Larynx.
Function: Greatly flexible to efficiently channel sound waves to the inner ear.
Appearance: Contains many yellow elastic fibers with chondrocytes that lie between them that appear dark.
Hyaline Cartilage
Location: Ends of joints, nose and respiratory passages.
Function: Shock absorber and reduces friction by serving as a padding between bones where they meet at joints.
Appearance: Glass-like but translucent with a pearl-grey color and a considerable amount of collagen with a firm consistency.
Fibrous
Location: Dermis of skin, tendons, and ligaments.
Function: Support
Appearance: Large amounts of collagen fibers and few cells or matrix material.
Adipose
Location: Subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, bone marrow, and breasts.
Function: Serves as a protective cushion, insulation to preserve body heat, and stores energy.
Appearance: Loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes.
Loose Connective or Areolar Tissue
Location: Skin, around mucous membranes, around blood vessels, nerves, and organs of the body.
Function: Binds underlying organs to skin and to each other and also forms delicate thin membranes throughout the body.
Appearance: Loose arrangement of collagenous and elastic fibers, scattered cells of various types; abundant ground substance; numerous blood vessels
Epithelial
Stratified Columnar
Location: Parts of the Eye, Pharynx, Anus, Uterus, Male Urethra, and Vas Deferens
