Histology Background and History

Question 1

What is Histology?

Answer 1

The study of the microscopic anatomy of cells and tissues of plants and animals

Question 2

What is Histopathology

Answer 2

Study of tissues to understand diseases

Question 3

What are the 4 Basic types of tissues?

Answer 3

Epithelial, Connective, Muscle, and Nervous Tissues

Question 4

Which tissue group do they belong to: Ducts of glands

Answer 4

Epithelial

Question 5

Which tissue group do they belong to: Skin

Answer 5

Epithelial and connective

Question 6

Which tissue group do they belong to: Lining of blood and lympathic vessels

Answer 6

Epithelial (but only on the basic level) Technically all are correct

Question 7

Which tissue group do they belong to: Fat

Answer 7

Connective

Question 8

Which tissue group do they belong to: Red and white blood cells

Answer 8

Connective

Question 9

Which tissue group do they belong to: Kidney tubules

Answer 9

Epithelial

Question 10

Which tissue group do they belong to: Cartilage

Answer 10

Connective

Question 11

Which tissue group do they belong to: Tendons and ligaments

Answer 11

Connective

Question 12

What are the four fluid humors?

Answer 12

Blood, Phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile

Question 13

What was Marie Francois Xavier Bichat’s main contribution?

Answer 13

• Main contribution was perception that the diverse body organs contain particular tissues or membranes - he described 21 of them that combine in different ways to form the organs of the body - He did not use microscopes (didn’t trust them)

Question 14

How did Marie Bichat see life?

Answer 14

He haw life as divided into two parts. The organic (vegetative state) and the animal life

Question 15

What was a new notion of tissues that Bichat introduced?

Answer 15

That tissues were distant entities and that diseases attacked tissues rather than whole organs or the entire body

Question 16

What was Rudolph Carl Virchow’s main contribution?

Answer 16

Pioneered concept of pathological processes through the application of the cell theory. “All cells come from cells”

Question 17

What is the connection between Virchow and the Cell theory?

Answer 17

He realized early on that the part of the cell theory that required all cells to be derived from existing cells could give insight into pathological processes

Question 18

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 18

Simple Columnar: Illeum

Epithelium

Question 19

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 19

Simple Coboidal: Kidney

Epithelium

Question 20

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 20

Stratified Squamous - Skin

Epithelium

Question 21

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 21

Transitional:Ureter

Epithelium

Question 22

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 22

Dense Bone

Connective Tissue

Question 23

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 23

Cancellous Bone

Connective TIssue

Question 24

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 24

Adipose

Connective TIssue

Question 25

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 25

Hyaline Cartilage Connective TIssue

Question 26

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 26

Skeletal Muscle: Low and HIgh Mag Muscle Tissue

Question 27

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 27

Cardiac muscle Muscle tissue

Question 28

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 28

Smooth muscle

Question 29

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 29

Cerebral cortex Nervous tissue

Question 30

What type of tissue is this?

Answer 30

Purkinje Cell Nervous Tissue