Background and history of histology (exam 1)

Question 1

What is Histopathology?

Answer 1

The Study of Diseased Tissues

Question 2

Why Should Someone Be interested in the Study of histopathology?

Answer 2

Allows one to interpret the difference between normal and diseased tissues

Question 3

Type of Tissues in Ducts and Glands?

Answer 3

Epithelial Tissue

Question 4

Type of tissue in Skin

Answer 4

Epithelial

Question 5

Type of Tissue in the lining of blood & lymphatic vessels

Answer 5

Epithelial

Question 6

Type of Tissue in Red and White Blood Cells

Answer 6

Connective Tissue

Question 7

Type of Tissue in Kidney Tubules

Answer 7

Epithelial

Question 8

Type of tissue in Cartilage

Answer 8

Connective Tissue

Question 9

Type of tissue in Tendon & ligaments

Answer 9

Connective Tissues

Question 10

Winners of the 1906 Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine

Answer 10

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

& Camillo Golgi

Question 11

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

Answer 11

co-winner of the 1906 Noble Prize for Physiology and Medicine
For his correct interpretation of neural structures of the brain

Question 12

Camillo Golgi

Answer 12

Co-winner of the 1906 Noble prize in Physiology and Medicine

Contribution: Invented staining technique used to visualize neural structures of the brain

Question 13

Humoral Pathology

Answer 13

A concept that dated back to the Greeks and was very prominent in the 18th Century. Diseases are due to an imbalance of 4 Fluid Humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and Black Bile

Question 14

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Answer 14

Italian Anatomist, in 1761 showed that diseases are not due to Humoral imbalances but to lesions in organs

Question 15

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Answer 15

Father of modern Histology
Perception that the diverse body organs contain particular tissues or membranes; he described 21 Membranes
Treatise on Membranes (1799) First Histology Book
Did not use a microscope (because he distrusted them)
Life divided into 2 Parts: organic (vegetative) life and the animal life
-organic life was the life of the heart, intestines, and other organs
-Organic life was regulated by small, independent, thoracic brains (Ganglionic nervous system)
-animal life was composed of symmetrical organs such as eyes, ears, and limbs.
- Animal life included habitat and and memory and was ruled by wit and intellect

Introduced notion that tissues are distinct entities and that disease attack tissues rather than whole organs

Question 16

Rudolph Cal Virchow

Answer 16

Pioneered Idea of Cell theory ( Did not invent whole theory but introduced the concept)
Omnis Cellulae e Cellulae- all cells come from cells
Coupled histology and pathology
Gave lectures to physicians

Question 17

Omnis Cellulae e Cellulae

Answer 17

all cells come from Cells

Term used by Rudolph Carl Virchow and is the key concept behind the cell theory

Question 18

What is Histology

Answer 18

The Study of Tissues