Cell Shapes and Sizes Flashcards

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Cuboidal

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Squarish looking in frontal tissue sections and about equal and heightened with liver cells are good example

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Columnar

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Distinctly taller than wide such as the inner lining cells of the stomach and intestines

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Polygonal

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Having regularly angular sheets with for five or more sides

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Stellate

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Having multiple pointed processes projecting from the body of the cell giving to someone starlike shape of the cell bodies of many nerve cells are step late

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Spheroidal to ovoid

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Round to oval as an egg cells and white blood cells

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Discoid

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Disc shaped as in red blood cells

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Fusion

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Spindle-shaped elongated with the middle and tapered ends as in smooth muscle cells

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Fibrous

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Long slender and that like as in skeletal muscle cells and the axons nerve fibers of nerve cells

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Squamous

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A thin flat scaly she often with the Baltimore the nucleus is much like the sheep on Friday eggs sunny side up squamous cells line the soffit guess and four on the surface layer epidermis of the skin

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