Flashcards: Locations of Tissues

Present at filtration sites: kidneys

Present at diffusion sites: lungs (air sacs)

Secretes in serous membranes

Surface of ovary, lines kidney tubules and small ducts in glands

- GI tract

- Glands and gallbladder

Uterine tubes, uterus, ventricles of brain

Upper respiratory tract (trachea)

Wet surfaces: lining of tongue, esophagus, vagina

Superficial layers of skin (Stratum lucidum and corneum)

Ureters, urinary bladder and parts of the urethra

Pituatary gland, thyroid, parathyroid

- Sweat, oil and earwax glands

- Salivary glands

Under skin along bones of embryo

Umbilical cord of fetus

Areolar, adipose and reticular

Almost everywhere: subcutaneous layer of skin, papillary region, around bv, nerves and organs

Subcutaneous layer; around heart and kidneys, yellow bone marrow

Stroma of liver, spleen, around bv and muscles

- Dense regular CT

- Dense irregular CT

- Elastic CT

- Tendons (attachment of muscles to bone)

- Most ligaments

- Dermis, pericardium

- Heart valves

- Lung tissue, trachea

- Some ligaments between vertebrae

- Hyaline

- Fibrocartilage

- Elastic

- Ends of long bones (articular)

- Anterior ends of ribs

- Nose

- Embryonic and fetal skeleton

Portions of tendons

- Epiglottis

- External ear

Compact and spongy bone