Types of Tissue (Nursing)

00:00 Greetings. In this lecture, we will discuss the tissue level of organization. By the end of this lecture, you should know the different types of tissues found in the body, the different types of cell junctions that hold the cells in those tissues together, and finally the different types of membranes found in and on the body. First, what is a tissue? A tissue is a group of cells that usually have a common embryonic origin in an embryo and function together to carry out a specialized function or activity. There are 4 basic tissue types found in the human body and we categorize these by their structure as well as their function. The 4 types of tissues found in the body include epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscular tissue, and nervous tissue.

00:56 In this lecture, we will actually focus on just the epithelial and connective tissue and we will learn about muscular and nervous tissue in future chapters.