Histo - Organs Flashcards
Endocrine & exocrine gland
Islets of Langerhans
Pancreas
Triad, central artery
Detoxifies blood
Liver
Stores & concentrates bile
Gallbladder
Meissner’s plexus
3 different areas of muscles (skeletal, mix, smooth)
Esophagus
Mix, store, and digest food
Absorbs some drugs, water, and alcohol
Gastric pits & rugae
Stomach
Digestion of food, selective absorption, endocrine function
Crypts of Lieberkuhn, villi, plicae semilunaris
Small intestine
Villi, Crypts of Lieberkuhn, Brunner’s glands
Duodenum
Peyer’s Patches, villi
Lacks Brunner’s glands
Jejunoileum
B-cell production
Mucosal crypts w/lymphoid tissue
Appendix
Water reabsorption, mucous production
Many crypts
Large intestine
Longitudinal folds
Transition from simple columnar to stratified squamous
Anal canal
White and red pulp
Elongated cords - “Bilroth’s cords”
Spleen
Encapsulated filter
Convex & concave surfaces
Medulla and cortex
Lymph node
3 different structures
Contain lymphoid nodules
Filter
Tonsils
Hassal’s corpuscles, T-cells, reticular cells, macrophages
Lacks lymphoid nodules
Thymus
Bowman’s capsule, renal corpuscle, loop of Henle
Kidney
Detrusor muscle
Facet cells
Urinary bladder