Tissue Type Sketch Function Location Notes

Simple squamous • Allows passage • Kidney • Single layer of

epithelium of materials by glomeruli flattened cells with
(1) diffusion and • Air sacs of lungs disc-shaped central
filtration in sites • Lining of heart, nuclei and sparse
where blood vessels, cytoplasm
protection is not and lymphatic • The simplest of
important vessels epithelia
• Secretes • Lining of ventral
lubricating cavity
substances in
serosae
Simple cuboidal • Secretion • Kidney tubules • Single layer of cube-
epithelium • Absorption • Ducts and like cells with large,
(2) secretory spherical central
portions of small nuclei
glands
• Ovary surface

Simple columnar • Absorption • Nonciliated type • Single layer of tall

epithelium • Secretion of lines digestive cells with round to
(3) mucus, tract (stomach oval nuclei
enzymes, and to anal canal, • Some cells bear cilia-
other gallbladder, and will not be on test as
substances excretory ducts kind with cilia
• Ciliated type of some glands • Layer may contain
propels mucus • Ciliated kind mucus-secreting
(or reproductive lines small unicellular glands
cells) by ciliary bronchi, uterine (globlets)
action tubes, and some
regions of the
uterus
Pseudostratified • Secretion, • Nonciliated type • Single layer of cells
columnar particularly of in males sperm- differing heights,
epithelium mucus carrying ducts some not reaching
(4) • Propulsion of and ducts of the free surface
mucus by ciliary large glands • Nuclei seen at
action • Ciliated variety different levels
lines the • May contain mucus-
trachea, most of secreting cells and
the upper bear cilia-on test it
respiratory tract will have cilia

Stratified • Protects • Nonkeratinized • Thick membrane

squamous underlying type forms the composed of several
epithelium tissues in areas moist lining of layers
(5) subjected to the esophagus, • Basal cells are
abrasion mouth, and cuboidal or columnar
vagina and are active in
• Keratinized mitosis
variety forms • Surface cells are
the epidermis of squamous and are
the skin, a dry full of keratin and
membrane dead

Stratified • Protection • Largest ducts of • Generally two layer

cuboidal sweat glands, of cubelike cells
epithelium mammary
(6) glands, and
salivary glands
Stratified • Protection • Rare in the body • Several cell layers
columnar • Secretion • Small amounts • Basal cells usually
epithelium in male urethra cuboidal
(7) and in large • Superficial cells
ducts of some elongated and
glands columnar

Transitional • Stretches • Lines the • Resembles both

epithelium readily and ureters, urinary stratified squamous
(8) permits bladder, and and stratified
distension of part of the cuboidal
urinary organ urethra • Basal cells cuboidal
by contained or columnar
urine • Surface cells dome
like or squamous-like,
depending on degree
of organ stretch

Connective tissue • Wraps and • Widely • Gel-like matrix with

proper: loose cushions organs distributed all three fiber types
aerolar • Macrophages under epithelia • Cells: Fibroblasts,
(9) phagocytize of body macrophages, mast
bacteria • Packages cells, and some white
• Plays important organs blood cells
role in • Surrounds
inflammation capillaries
• Holds and
conveys tissue
fluid
Connective tissue • Provides • Under skin • Matrix is aerolar, but
proper loose- reserve fuel • Around kidneys very sparse
adipose • Insulates and eyeballs • Closely packed
(10) against heat • Within abdomen adipocytes, or fat
loss • In breasts cells, have nucleus
• Supports and pushed to the side by
protects organs large fat droplet

Connective tissue • Fibers form a • Lymphoid • Network of reticular

proper loose- soft internal organs (lymph fibers in a typical
reticular skeleton nodes, bone loose ground
(11) (stroma) that marrow, and substance
supports other spleen) • Reticular cells lie on
cell types, the network
including white
blood cells,
mast cells, and
macrophages

Connective tissue • Attaches • Tendons • Primarily parallel

proper dense- muscles to • Most ligaments collagen fibers
regular bones or to • Aponeuroses • A few elastic fibers
(12) muscles • Major cell type is the
• Attaches bones fibroblast
to bones
• Withstands
great tensile
 stress when
pulling force is
applied in one
direction

Connective tissue • Allows recoil of • Walls of large • Dense regular

proper dense- tissue following arteries connective tissue
elastic stretching • Within certain containing a high
(13) • Maintains ligaments proportion of elastic
pulsatile flow of associated with fibers
blood through the vertebral
arteries column
• Aids passive • Within the walls
recoil of lungs of the bronchial
following tubes
inspiration

Connective tissue • Able to • Fibrous capsules • Primarily irregularly

dense-irregular withstand of organs and of arranged collagen
(14) tension exerted joints fibers
in many • Dermis of the • Some elastic fibers
directions skin • Major cell type is
• Provides • Submucosa of fibroblast
structural digestive tract
strength

Hyaline cartilage • Supports and • Forms most of • Amorphous but firm

(15) reinforces the embryonic matrix
• Has resilient skeleton • Collagen fibers form
cushioning • Covers the ends an imperceptible
properties of long bones in network
 • Resists joint cavities • Chondroblasts
compressive • Forms costal produce the matrix
stress cartilages of the and when mature lie
ribs in lacunae
• Cartilages of the
nose, trachea,
and larynx
Elastic cartilage • Maintains the • Supports the • Similar to hyaline
(16) shape of a external ear cartilage, but more
structure while (pinna) elastic fibers in
allowing great • Epiglottis matrix
flexability

Fibrocartilage • Tensile strength • Intervertebral • Matrix similar to but

(17) with the ability discs less firm than in
to absorb • Pubic symphysis hyaline cartilage
compressive • Discs of knee • Thick collagen fibers
shock joint predominate

Compact bone •
(18)
Spongy bone
(19)

Blood • Transport of • Contained • Red and white blood

(20) respiratory within blood cells in a fluid matrix
gases, vessels
nutrients,
wastes, and
other
substances

Smooth muscle • Propels • Mostly in the • Spindle-shaped cells

(21) substances or walls of hollow with central nuclei
objects organs • No striations
(foodstuffs, • Cells arranged
urine, a baby) closely to form
along internal
 passageways sheets
• Involuntary
control

Cardiac muscle • As it contracts, • The walls of the • Branching, striated,

(22) it propels blood heart generally uninucleate
into circulation cells that interdigiate
• Involuntary at specialize
control junctions

Skeletal muscle • Voluntary • In skeletal • Long, cylindrical,

(23) movement muscles multinucleate cells
• Locomotion attached to • Obvious striations
• Manipulation of bones or
the occasionally
environment skin
• Facial
expression
• Voluntary
control
Nervous tissue • Transmit • Brain • Neurons are
(24) electrical • Spinal Cord branching cells
signals from • Nerves • Cell processes the
sensory may be quite long
receptors and to extend from the
effectors nucleus-containing
(muscles and cell body
glands) which • Contributing to
control their nervous tissue are
activity nonirritable
supporting cells