Primarily supporting Florida's tourism industry, this nickname references the great measure of sunshine that falls upon the state each year. The Alligator State This nickname grew from the number of alligators that lived in the streams and swamplands of Florida.
Intercalated discs are microscopic identifying features of cardiac muscle. Cardiac muscle consists of individual heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) connected by intercalated discs to work as a single functional organ or syncytium.hree types of cell junction make up an intercalated disc â fascia adherens, desmosomes and gap junctions. 1  Fascia adherens are anchoring sites for actin, and connect to the closest sarcomere. 2  Desmosomes stop separation during contraction by binding intermediate filaments, joining the cells together.
The intervertebral discs (or discs) are fibrocartilages lying between adjacent surfaces of the vertebrae. They form a fibrocartilaginous joint between the vertebral bodies, linking them together. The disc makes up one third to one fourth of the spinal columnâs length, forming an interpose between every two vertebrae except between the atlas (C1) and axis (C2) and coccyx.