Practical 1 Histology

Simple Cuboidal

• Found in

  • Kidney tubules

  • Ducts and secretory portions of small glands

  • Ovary surface

Nervous Tissue

• Found in

  • brain

  • spinal cord

  • nerves

Smooth Muscle

• Found in

  • mostly in walls of hollow organs

Blood

• Found in

  • Blood vessels

Elastic Connective Tissue

• Found in

  • Walls of arteries

  • Within ligaments associated with the vertebral column

  • within walls of bronchial tubes

Elastic Cartilage

• Found in

  • External ear

  • Epiglottis

Hyaline Cartilage

• Found in

  • Most forms of the embryonic skeleton

  • Covers ends of long bone in joint cavities

  • Forms costal cartilage of ribs

  • Cartilage of nose, trachea, larynx

Bone Tissue

• Found in

  • Bones

Dense Regular Connective

• Found in

  • Tendons

  • Most ligaments

  • Aponeuroses

Reticular

• Found in

  • Lymphoid organs (spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow)

Adipose Tissue

• Found in

  • Under skin

  • Around kidneys and eyeballs

  • Within abdomen

  • In breasts

Areolar

• Found

  • Distributed under epithelia of body

  • Forms lamina propria of mucous membranes

  • Packages organs

  • Surrounds capillaries

Mesenchyme

• Found

  • Primarily in embryo

Transitional Epithelium

• Found in

  • Linings of bladder

  • Linings of the ureters

  • Part of the urethra

(anywhere subject to stretch)

Stratified Cuboidal

• Found in

  • Largest ducts of sweat glands

  • Mammary glands

  • Salivary glands

Fibrocartilage

• Found in

  • Intervertebral discs

  • Pubic symphysis

  • Discs of knee joint

Simple Squamous

• Found in

  • Kidney glomeruli

  • Air sacs of lungs

  • Lining of heart

  • Blood Vessels

  • Lymphatic Vessels

  • Lining of ventral body cavity

Stratified Squamous

• Esophagus

• Mouth

• Vagina

• Epidermis of skin

Cardiac Muscle'

• Found in

  • Walls of the heart

Skeletal Muscle

• Found in

  • Skeletal muscle attached to bones or occasionally skin

Smooth muscle

• Found in

  • Mostly in walls of hollow organs

Dense Regular Connective

• Found in

  • Tendons

  • Most Ligaments

  • Apopneuroses

Pseudo/Simple Columnar

• Pseudo found in

  • Trachea

  • Upper resp. tract

  • Male’s sperm-carrying ducts

• Simple found in

  • Linings of digestive tract

  • Bronchi

  • Uterine tubes

  • Gallbladder