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Epithelial Flashcards

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Simple Cuboidal

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Kidney tubules and ducts of some glands (salivary, thyroid, pancreas, liver)

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Simple Columnar

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Lines uterus/fallopian tubes, stomach and intestines

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Psudostratified Columnar

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Upper respiratory tract (trachea, bronchi, bronchioles)

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Stratified Squamous

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Outer layer of skin, mouth, throat, vagina, anal canal

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Stratified Cuboidal

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Mammary glands, sweat glands, salivary glands, and pancreas

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Stratified Columnar

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Vas deferens, pharynx, junction of distal esophagus and cardiac sphincter

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Transitional

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Urinary bladder

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Elongated cells, nuclei on basement of membrane, microvilli, cilia

Absorber and cilia moves things

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Simple columnar

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Single, thin, flat, permeable

Good for diffusion

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Simple squamous

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10
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Single, cube-shaped, central nuclei, single ring

Secretion & absorption

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Simple cuboidal

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Looks like more than one layer but it’s not, nuclei not all on bottom, cilia, goblet cells

Sweep debris, goblet cells produce mucin

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Psudostratified columnar

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12
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Flattened layerS of cells

Wear and tear, friction, exposure, protect from fluid loss and invasion

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Stratified squamous

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13
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2-3 layers of cuboidal

Great protection, secretors

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Stratified cuboidal

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14
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Several layers of columnar

Very rare in the body

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Stratified columnar

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15
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Designed to return to normal size

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Transitional

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16
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80% of skin cancer, usually caused by too much exposure before age 20, looks like a pimple that won’t go away

99% cure rate

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Basal cell carcinoma

17
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15% of skin cancer, too much sun exposure, red, scaly, may bleed, doesn’t heal

99% cure rate

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Squamous cell carcinoma

18
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3-5% of skin cancer, sun exposure and genetic link, grows down through basement membrane, metastasis

Deadly, early detection

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Malignant melanoma

19
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ABCD

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Asymmetry, border, color, diameter

20
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Top part of epidermis is burned, irritated nerve endings

Painful, red, no blisters, 3-7 days, aloe Vera and cool compress

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1st degree

21
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Epidermis and dermis burned

Painful, red, blisters, peeling, 7-10 days, cool compress aloe Vera

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2nd degree

22
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Entire thickness of epidermis and dermis

No pain, whitish/grey color, skin slippage and oozing of fluid, months-1 year

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3rd degree

23
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Rule of nines

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Determining and relaying percent of body burned

24
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Cutaneous membrane

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Tarp over boat, skin

25
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Mucous membrane

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Lines openings to outside (digestive, respiratory, urinary, reproductive), cells that contain mucous

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Serous membrane

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Two layered w/ potential space between

Parietal- lines walls of cavities
Visceral- wraps around organs

Serous fluid reduces friction

27
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Simple Squamous

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Lines inside of blood vessels, heart, capillaries, alveoli

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