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Histology 11th grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Epithelial Location | Covers body surface, lines hollow organs, body cavities and ducts, also forms glands |
| Simple squamous Location | line air sacs, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, body cavities |
| Simple cuboidal Location | line kidney tubules, cover ovaries, line ducts of salivary, pancreas, and liver glands |
| Simple columnar Location | line uterus, stomach, intestines |
| Pseudostratified columnar Location | line respiratory passageways |
| Stratified squamous Loction | line oral cavity, throat, vagina, anal canal |
| Stratified cuboidal Location | line ducts of mammary glands, sweat glands, salivary glands, and the pancreas |
| Stratified columnar Location | line vas deferens, male urethra, and part of pharynx |
| Glandular Epithelium Location | within columnar or cuboidal epithelium |
| Merocrine gland location | salivary glands, pancreas, sweat glands |
| Apocrine gland location | mammary, ceruminous |
| Holocrine gland Location | sebacious glands |
| Mast cell Location | Near blood vessels |
| Collagenous Fiber Location | abundant in dense CT, tendons, ligaments |
| Reticular Fiber Location | spleen, liver, lymph nodes |
| Elastic Fiber Location | vocal cords, air passages |
| Loose connective tissue Location | beneath most epithelium, fills spaces between muscles |
| Adipose tissue Location | beneath skin, behind eyes, around kidneys and heart |
| Blood Location | thorughout blood vessels, heart |
| Reticular CT Location | framework of walls of liver, spleen, lymphatic organs |
| Dense CT Location | tendons, ligaments, dermis |
| Elastic CT Location | abundant in elastic fibers, attachments between vertebrae, wolls of large ateries, airways, heart |
| Bone Location | skeleton, spongy and compact bone |
| Hyaline cartilage Location | ends of bones, nose, respiratory passages, embryonic skeleton |
| Elastic Cartilage Locaiton | external ear, larynx |
| Fibro cartilage Location | intervertebral discs, pads of knee, pelvic girdle |
| Serous Membrane Location | line body cavities that lack opening to outside, inner lining and covering of thorax and abdomen |
| Mucous Membrane Location | line tube and organs that open to outside world, lining of mouth, nose, throat, ect. |
| Cutaneous Membrane Location | Covers body, skin |