Histology Flashcards (Block 1.1)
31 free spaced-repetition flashcards for Histology, Block 1.1: Biology Block: Cell and Hematology. Review what's due each day; works offline.
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- What distinguishes simple from stratified epithelium?
- Where is pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium classically found?
- What are the three main types of cartilage, and one defining feature of each?
- Which blood cell has no nucleus and why does that matter for identification?
- What is the key structural difference between skeletal and cardiac muscle under the microscope?
- What cell type is responsible for laying down bone matrix, and what is it called once it becomes trapped in that matrix?
- What is the functional unit of a lymph node responsible for antibody production?
- Which granulocyte has bilobed nuclei and bright eosinophilic (red-orange) granules, and what is it associated with?
- What are the three modes of glandular secretion, and how do they differ?
- What is a desmosome and what is its function?
- What is a Kupffer cell?
- What type of connective tissue makes up tendons, and how are its fibers arranged?
- What do goblet cells secrete, and where are they found?
- What is the key histologic difference between exocrine and endocrine glands?
- Name the five layers of the epidermis shown here, from superficial to deep.
- What are the three criteria used to classify epithelial tissue?
- What are the three functionally distinct surfaces of an epithelial cell?
- What does a tight junction (zonula occludens) do?
- What is a zonula adherens, and where does it sit relative to the tight junction?
- How does a gap junction work, and what size cutoff limits what can pass through it?
- How does a hemidesmosome differ from a desmosome?
- What are microvilli, and by roughly how much do they increase a cell's absorptive surface area?
- What are stereocilia, and where are they classically found?
- Roughly how many cilia can a single ciliated epithelial cell carry, and how long can each one be?
- What is the '9+2' arrangement inside a motile cilium?
- How are exocrine glands classified by structure, separate from their secretion mechanism?
- Where is transitional epithelium found, and why is it well suited to that location?
- What type of epithelium lines the parietal layer of Bowman's capsule?
- What is unusual about the epithelium lining the male urethra's pars cavernosa?
- What shape are the follicular cells that line thyroid follicles?
- What type of epithelium lines the fallopian tube, and what is its function there?