Histology

Question 1

What are the 4 basic tissue types

Answer 1

Connective, muscle, epithelium, nervous tissue

Question 2

What are the two types of glandular epithelium?

Answer 2

Endocrine (through basal lamine) and exocrine (through apical membrane)

Question 3

What are the two types of connective tissue, give examples of their type

Answer 3

Hard connective tissue like bone and cartilage

Soft connective tissue like tendons, ligaments and stroma of organs

Question 4

What are the three types of muscle

Answer 4

Cardiac
Smooth
Skeletal

Question 5

Give some features of smooth muscle

Answer 5

Fibres long parallel and have an oval nucleus

Involuntary muscle

Question 6

Give some features of skeletal muscle

Answer 6

Each fibre multinucleated
Membrane of these cells is the sarcolemma

Under conscious control

Question 7

Give some features of cardiac muscle

Answer 7

Striated muscle with single nucleus

Contains intercalated discs

Question 8

What are the connective tissue layers called that surround the CNS and PNS

Answer 8

CNS; meninges

PNS epinerurium

Question 9

What are the three types of neurones

Answer 9

Multipolar; many dendrites, one axon
Bipolar; one dendrite and axon
Pseudounipolar; axon in both directions

Question 10

What are the three major salivary glands

Answer 10

Parotid submandibular and sublingual

Question 11

Name the salivary glands in order from most viscous secretions to least

Answer 11

Sublingual, submandibular and parotid