Epithelium

Question 1

What is the histological name of respiratory epithelium?

Answer 1

Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium

Question 2

What type of tissue lines sub-tracheal glands?

Answer 2

Simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 3

What type of tissue lines the bronchus?

Answer 3

Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium

Question 4

What type of tissues lines bronchioles?

Answer 4

Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium

Question 5

What tissue lines terminal bronchioles?

Answer 5

Starts as Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium, transitions to Ciliated simple columnar epithelium, and finally to simple squamous epithelium in the alveoli.

Question 6

What types of tissue lines the alveoli?

Answer 6

Simple squamous epithelium

Question 7

What type of tissue lines the esophagus?

Answer 7

Stratified squamous epithelium

Question 8

How can you distinguish the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus from the simple squamous of the epidermis and vagina?

Answer 8

Differs from the epidermis in not having multiple layers

Differs from vagina in not having light stained glycogen saturated epithelium

Question 9

What type of cells line the distal convoluted tubule?

Answer 9

Simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 10

What type of cells line the proximal convoluted tubule?

Answer 10

Simple cuboidal epithelium with a brush border.

Question 11

What type of cells make up the macula densa?

Answer 11

Modified simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 12

What cells make up the visceral layer of bowman’s capsule?

Answer 12

Simple squamous epithelium with podocytes.

Question 13

What structures make up the renal corpuscle?

Answer 13

Bowman’s capsule and the glomularis.

Question 14

What cells make up the parietal layer of bowman’s capsule?

Answer 14

Simple squamous epithelium with tight junctions.

Question 15

What cells make up the epithelium of the thin portion of the loop of henle?

Answer 15

Simple squamous epithelium

Question 16

What cells make up the lining of the capillaries of the vasa recta?

Answer 16

Simple squamous epithelium

Question 17

What cells line the collecting ducts in the medulla of the kidney?

Answer 17

Simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 18

What is endothelium?

Answer 18

Simple squamous epithelium which lines the inside of the entire circulatory system.

Question 19

What are the layers that surround a blood vessel?

Answer 19

The tunica intima, composed of connective tissue and simple squamous epithelium
Tunica media, smooth muscle
Tunica adventitia, connective tissue layer

Question 20

What cells make up the vestibular membrane?

Answer 20

Simple squamous epithelium

Question 21

What are tectorial hair cells?

Answer 21

Modified bipolar neurons or modified stereocilia.

Question 22

What cells make up the outer epithelial layer of the cornea?

Answer 22

Highly modified stratified squamous epithelium

Question 23

What cells make up the intermediate connective tissue layer of th cornea?

Answer 23

Highly modified dense collage nous connective tissue regularly arranged

Question 24

What cells make up the inner epithelium of the cornea?

Answer 24

Highly modified simple squamous epithelium

Question 25

What is the epithelium of the esophagus?

Answer 25

Stratified squamous epithelium

Question 26

What is the epithelium of the stomach?

Answer 26

Simple columnar epithelium

Question 27

What is the epithelium of the small intestine?

Answer 27

Simple columnar epithelium with a striated border

Question 28

What is the epithelium of the appendix?

Answer 28

Simple columnar epithelium with a striated border

Question 29

What is the epithelium of the large intestine and how can it be distinguished from the small?

Answer 29

Simple columnar epithelium Distinguished by the large number of goblet cells and invaginations, rather than evaginations, that reach all the way to the lamina propria

Question 30

What is the epithelium of the oviduct?

Answer 30

Ciliated simple columnar epithelium

Question 31

What is the epithelium of the uterine endometrium?

Answer 31

Simple columnar eptithelium

Question 32

What is the epithelium of the vagina?

Answer 32

Stratified squamous epithelium with vaginal glands

Question 33

What is the epithelium of the epididymis?

Answer 33

Stereociliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium

Question 34

What is the epithelium of the vas deferens?

Answer 34

Stereociliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium | Though the nearer the outlet of the vas deferens you are, there is a transition to simple columnar

Question 35

What is the epithelium of the ureter?

Answer 35

Transitional or uroepithelium

Question 36

What is the epithelium of the urethra?

Answer 36

Transitional or uroepithelium, transitioning to simple squamous epithelium as you get closer to the urethra's exit from the body.