tissue types

Type: Simple cuboidal

Location: Kidney tubes, glands

FunctionL secretion of products, some reabsorption of substances in kidneys

Type: Simple Squamous

Location: Lung alveoli (air sacs), capillaries (small blood vessels)

Function: Diffusion of substances

Type: Simple Columnar

Location: intestinal lining

Function: Absorption of nutrients, especially with microvilli projections increasing surface area for it

Cilia on hollow-facing side (lumen) of cells

Type: Pseudostratified columnar

Location: respiratory tract lining

Function: Secretion of mucus, trapping foreign particles, cilia move the mucus along lumen away from lungs

Type: Stratified squamous

Location: Epidermis (top part) of skin, other openings (anus, vagina, oral cavity)

Function: Protection from external environment

Type: Stratified cuboidal

Location: Sweat glands specifically

Function: Secretion of a product (sweat)

Type: Stratified columnar

very rare

Type: Skeletal muscle

Location: Muscles that attach to skeleton (i.e. Biceps, quadriceps, etc.)

Function: Movement of bones, heat production

Type: Cardiac Muscle

Location: Myocardium (heart muscle)

Function: movement of blood, generation of blood pressure

Type: smooth muscle

Location: walls of hollow organs (intestines, arteries, stomach, etc.)

Function: Movement of food, regulating blood pressure, etc.

Type: nervous tissue

Location: Brain/Spinal cord (central nervous system), nerves (peripheral nervous system)

Function: Detect, process, coordinate motor outputs

Type: Dense, irregular connective tissue

Location: Dermis (deep part of skin), skeletal muscle fascicles (sheaths of muscles)

Function: Binding, able to stretch

Type: Dense, regular connective tissue

Location: Tendons and ligaments

Function: Anchoring bones to bones and bones to muscles (also in high-pressure arteries with some elastic tissue)

Type: Areolar

Location: widespread between many tissue types

Function: Binding and connecting tissues to each other

Type: Reticular

Location: Lymphoid tissues (spleen, lymph, nodes, bone marrow)

Function: Structural support and houses white blood cells

Type: Adipose

Location: widespread, under skin, padding organs

Function: Insulation, padding, energy storage

Type: Hyaline cartilage

Location: Ends of bones, ribs

Function: protection

Type: Blood

Function: Transport O2 and CO2 and nutrients/waste throughout the body

Type: Bone

Function: Support, calcium storage

Type: elastic cartilage

Location: ‘E’ words- Ears, epiglottis, Eustachian tubes

Function: Flexibility of small structures

Type: Fibrocartilage

Location: Padded areas (intervertebral discs, meniscus of knee, public symphysis)

Function: Padding