Tissue Types Help AP!

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Does anyone have any suggestions or mnemonic devices for memorizing the different tissue types? We have to know all (Connective, Cartilage, Bone, Blood & subcategories) and their functions as well as what their matrix is like. I have tried to come up with my own, but have been stumped! Thanks! :)

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Just had my first exam on this, and all I can say is lots of study time!

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I agree with Mom 2 boys..nothing is better than to just plain old study

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I have to agree - study, and you'll get it. I have an exam on that next Monday, and I'm ready. I've been ready since the day we started learning it, because that is the day I started reviewing. This way I never have to cram. I learn a little at a time, and review a little each day, so when the test comes around I'm set, and I spend maybe 2 hours tops (in front of the TV and computer) the night before making sure everything is in order. I know it is because I start dreaming about A&P lol!

It took me a clear week to get all of the tissues straight - where they are, what they do, and what they look like. It just suddenly clicked. It helped to break them up in little sections. Connective tissues one night, and the properties...the subclasses, functions, and where to find them. Then I added Epithelial tissue, and so on and so on. In my class, we are ignoring muscle and nervous tissues until we reach those systems, so I got lucky there I guess.

To quiz myself, I take out my notes, my little dry erase board and markers, pick a topic heading, cover up my notes, and list on my erase board every little thing I know about that type of tissue or whatever I'm studying. Basically, I teach it back to myself. If I can do that, I have it! I look back at my notes, compare, and circle whatever I left out and study that part again.

Good luck:D:up:, I think you'll be fine. I panicked before my first test, but I studied well, and honestly, and the answers poped out at me on the test.

ETA: Sometimes I also use extra sources not given to use, like youtube and wiki. It helps sometimes to use supplementary sources.

ETA2: Remember for Connective Tissue (most abundant of the four tissues) you have 4 subclasses: Connective Tissue Proper - which has loose (adipose, areolar, and reticular) and dense (sometimes called "fibrous connective tissue", which has dense regular and dense irregular, and elastic), then you have Cartilage - which has hyaline (most abundant cartilage), elastic, and fibrocartilage. Then Bone and Blood.

Connective Tissue Proper - fibrocytes

Cartilage - chondrocytes

Bone - osteocytes

Blood - hemaopeotia (sp?)

Blood is a connective tissue because it arises from the embryonic mesenchyme as all the others do.

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Wow you must be in my class. Test tomorrow on those tissues types. Made index cards and study and study and studying some more- May sleep for a few hours, then meeting with my study group at 7: a.m. in the morning-

More coffee please...........................:jester:

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