Final Projections Flashcards
Name & Characteristics

Artery, vein and nerve
Characteristics - Peripheral arteries, veins, and nerves tend to travel and branch in parallel.
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Epididymis
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Bronchiole
Characteristics: Cross-section with pseudostratified epithelium surrounded by hyaline cartilage, smooth muscle and adventitia. Hyaline cartilage and smooth muscle are also found in the bronchioles.
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Arterial Walls
Characteristics - elastic tissue is colored blue and consists of adventia, collagen is pale pink and cytoplasm (in smooth muscle and nerve) is red and consists of tunica media and the innermost layer, tunica intima is closest to the lumen
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Renal Tubules
Characteristics: Contain simple cuboidal epithelium
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Urethra
Characteristics: The epithelium of the urethra starts off as transitional cells as it exits, further along the urethra there are stratified columnar cells, then stratified squamous cells near the external urethral orifice.
There are small mucus-secreting urethral glands, that help protect the epithelium from the corrosive urine.
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Parathyroid Gland
Characteristics: The parathyroid gland is made of chief cells and oxyphil cells. It is made of denser tissue. Chief cells are numerous and smaller in size compared to the oxyphil cells.
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Oviduct
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Liver
Characteristics: central vain medially located and readily visible; portal triads consist of artery, portal vein, and bile duct
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Palatine Tonsils
Characteristics – Top layer of the tonsil consists of stratified Squamous epithelium followed by lymphatic tissue.
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Kidney
Characteristics: Glomeruli surrounded by Bowman’s capsules; aforementioned structures separated by capsular space; glomeruli demark the division between cortex and medulla in kidney
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Vagina
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Peyer’s Patches
Characteristics: Diffuse lymphoid tissues (lymphoid nodule) composed of lymphocytes
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Colon
Characteristics – Divided into four layers- mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The mucosa is the innermost layer of the gastrointestinal tract that is surrounding the lumen, or space within the tube. This layer comes in direct contact with food (or bolus), and is responsible for absorption and secretion. Mucosa is further divided into epithelium, lamina propria and muscularis mucosae
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Penis
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Gastro-Esophageal (Cardiac) Sphincter
Characteristics: Cardiac sphincter at junction changes from stratified squamous to simple columnar
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Pituitary Gland
Characteristics: “1” is anterior pituitary (pars distalis), “2” is pars nervosa (neurohypophysis), and “3” is the infundibulum connecting pars nervosa to the hypothalamus
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Oral Cavity
Characteristics - The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane epithelium of the mouth. It can be divided into three categories.
Masticatory mucosa - keratinized stratified squamous epithelium, found on the dorsum of the tongue, hard palate and attached gingiva.
Lining mucosa - non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium, found almost everywhere else in the oral cavity.
Specialized mucosa - specifically in the regions of the taste buds on the dorsum of the tongue.
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Lymph Node
Characteristics – A lymph node is round, ovoid, or bean-shaped and varies in size from less than 1 mm to 2-3 cm. Lymph nodes may enlarge during infection or disease and then they are easily palpated.
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Adrenal Gland
Characteristics: cortex divided into three zones: zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, zona reticularis; medulla readily visible
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Crypts of Lieberkuhn
Characteristics: composed of simple columnar cells, goblet cells, DNES, and Paneth cells; tubular glands
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Pineal Gland
Characteristics: The secretory cells of the pineal gland are pinealocytes. The pineal body consists in humans of a lobular parenchyma of pinealocytes surrounded by connective tissue spaces. The gland’s surface is covered by a capsule.
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Thymus
Characteristics - Thymus is a bilobed mass of lymphatic tissue. It reaches its greatest relative weight (10-15 g) at birth and its greatest absolute weight (30-40 g) about the time of puberty. It begins to involute after puberty (weighing about 25 g at 25 years, 13 g at 50 years, and 6 g at 75 years) and may become difficult to recognize grossly because of fatty infiltration. Gonads, suprarenal glands, and the thyroid gland influence the thymus.
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Graafian follicle
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Thyroid Gland
Characteristics: Colloid is surrounded by cuboidal, follicular cells