Cell Shapes and Sizes Flashcards
Cuboidal
Squarish looking in frontal tissue sections and about equal and heightened with liver cells are good example
Columnar
Distinctly taller than wide such as the inner lining cells of the stomach and intestines
Polygonal
Having regularly angular sheets with for five or more sides
Stellate
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
Spheroidal to ovoid
Round to oval as an egg cells and white blood cells
Discoid
Disc shaped as in red blood cells
Fusion
Spindle-shaped elongated with the middle and tapered ends as in smooth muscle cells
Fibrous
Long slender and that like as in skeletal muscle cells and the axons nerve fibers of nerve cells
Squamous
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