Anatomy & Physiology
HISTOLOGY SCRAMBLE
FIND THE LOCATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TISSUES OF THE
BODY. REWRITE INTO TABLE FORM. DRAW DIAGRAMS OF Tissues.
TISSUE
Description
Function
Location
Free surface and basement
membrane, avascular and
Protection, absorption,
Covering of
mitotic
diffusion, secretion,
organs , lining of
Epithelial
filtration
cavities
Matrix, mitotic, most are
Support, protection,
connective
vascular
storage, inflammatory
response
Throughout body
Ability to lengthen and
shorten, amitotic after
attached to
puberty, vascular
Movement of bones,
bones, in hollow
muscular
materials and blood
organs, heart
Cell processes, amitotic
after 2, avascular
Brain and spinal
nervous
conduct electrical signals
cord
Haversian rings, lacunae,
caniculi, central canal, hard
matrix, mitotic and vascular support, storage of calcium,
bone
protection
skeleton
Single layer with goblet
cells and cilia, nuclei at
Pseudostratified
different heights
Respiratory
ciliated columnar
Mucus secretion
passageways
Mast cells, elastin and
collagen fibers, liquid
Areolar
matrix
Inflammatory response,
Around organs,
water reservoir, packing
under skin
Many layers with top layer
flattened. Nuclei decrease
away from basement
membrane, avascular,
Epidermis
mitotic
Esophagus,
stratified squamous
protection
mouth
Long cylindrical cells, many
Skeletal muscle
nuclei, striations
Movement of bones
Attached to bones
Support and friction
Joints, end of ribs,
Hyaline cartilage
Lacunae, gel matrix
reduction
nose
Tall cells, nuclei found
close to basement
Digestive tract
membrane, goblet cells
Produce mucus, absorb
from stomach to
columnar
nutrients
anus
Uninucleate, branching
cells with striations and Contraction and relaxation
Cardiac muscle
intercalated disks
of heart
heart
Anatomy & Physiology
HISTOLOGY SCRAMBLE
Match the functions on the left with the tissue on the right. Choices can be used more than
once.
1.
Consists of many layer of cells E
A) Simple squamous epithelium
2.
Nuclei located at different levels in cell D
B) Simple cuboidal epithelium
3.
Forms the walls of capillaries
A
C) Simple columnar epithelium
4.
Forms linings of respiratory passages.D
D) Pseudostratified columnar
5.
Have centrally located spherical nuclei B
E) Stratified squamous epithelium
6.
Forms lining of digestive tract.C
7.
Nuclei located near basement membrane C
8.
Top layer is thin like floor tiles E
9.
Forms the lining of the mouth. E
10.
Forms the lining of the ducts in glands. B
Which one doesn’t belong? Choose the word or phrase that is different from the others.
11.
A) squamous B). cartilage
12.
A) goblet cell
13.
A) Mouth
B) abuse
C) stratified squamous
D) absorption
14.
A) simple
B) one layer
C) stratified
D) diffusion
15.
A) hyaline
B) Adipose
C) fat
D) buttock, breast
16.
A) smooth muscle
17
A) connective tissue B) matrix
18
A) blood
B) solid matrix
19
A) kidneys
B) stratified
B) cilia
C) columnar
C) stratified squamous
B) hollow organs
D). transitional
D) pseudostratified
C) multinucleate
C) areolar
C) anucleate
C) filtration
columnar
D) involuntary
D) apical surface
D) extracellular substance
D) cuboidal
Complete the sentence by filling in the blank:
20. All epithelial tissue types have CLOSELY PACKED cells, are AVASCULAR and are highly
MITOTIC.
21. Connective tissue has the general function of SUPPORT.
22. One characteristic that all connective tissue types share is extracellular material called
MATRIX.
Match the prefix with the word or phrase that defines it:
23. adip- h
a. bone
24. pseudo-d
b. without
25. squam-g
c. cartilage
26. strat-e
d. false
27. chondr-c
e. layers
28. os- a
f. cell
29. –cyte f
g. flat
30. a- b
h. fat