Tissues: Name, Function, Location

Simple Squamous Epithelial

Location: air sacs of lungs

Function: oxygen easily diffuses across these cells.

Simple Cuboidal Epithelial

Location: Kidney Tubules, lining of certain ducts and glands

Function: Secretion and absorption

Simple Columnar Epithelial

Location: lining of uterus, stomach and intestines

Function: Absorption and secretion

Pseudostratified Columnar Ciliated Epithelial

Location: Lining of respiratory passages

Function: protection, secretion, and movement of mucus

Stratified Squamous Epithelial

Location: Outer layer of skin, lining of oral cavity, and throat

Function: Protection

Transitional Epithelial

Location: Urinary Bladder

Function: Stretches and permits dissension of urinary organ by contained urine

Loose Connective Tissue, Areolar

Location: beneath skin, between muscles

Function: Wraps and cushions organs

Loose Connective Tissue, Adipose

Location: beneath skin, around kidneys, behind eyeballs

Function: Provides reserve fuel, insulates

Dense Connective Tissue, Dense Regular

Location: Tendons, Ligaments

Function: Attaches muscles to bones or to muscles

Cartilage, Hyaline

Location: End of bones, nose, rings in the walls of respiratory passages.

Function: Supports and Reinforces

Cartilage, Elastic

Location: Framework of external ear part of the larnyx

Function: Maintains shape of structure while allowing great flexibility

Cartilage, Fibrocartilage

Location: Intervertebral Discs, between knee

Function: absorb compressive shock

Bones (Osseous)

Location: Bones

Function: Supports and Protects, provides framework.

Blood

Location: Contained within blood vessels

Function: Transport of respiratory gases, nutrients, wastes and other substances

Stratified cuboidal epithelium

Location: Lining of larger ducts of mammary glands

Function: protection

Stratified columnar epithelium

Location: part of the male urethra and part of the pharynx

Function: protection, secretion

Merocrine gland

Location: salivary glands

Function: A fluid released through the cell membrane by exocytosis. Cells stay intact.

Apocrine gland

Location: Mammary glands

Function:cellular product and portions of the free ends of glandular cells pinched off during secretion.

Macrophage

carry out phagocytosis

Holocrine gland

Location: Sebaceous glands of skin

Function: Entire cells filled and secreted with products.

Fibroblast

Produce fibers

Mast cell

secrete heparin and histamine

Smooth Muscle

Location: Walls of hollow organs

Function: Propels substances or objects along internal passageways' Involuntary Control

Cardiac Muscle

Location: Walls of the heart

Function: Propels blood into the circulation; Involuntary Control

Skeletal Muscle

Location: Skeletal muscles attached to bones or occasionally to the skin

Function: Voluntary Movement; Voluntary Control

Nervous

Location: Brain

Function: Neurons transmit electrical signals from sensory receptors and to effectors (muscles and glands)