Histology Word Study List

Section I
What is it?
What is it made of?
What does it do?
Where is it located?
Does it have any unusual structural or functional peculariaties?

Section One

histology
tissue
physiology
anatomy
morphology
epithelia
connective tissue
muscle
nerve
body fluid
fiber
matrix
cell protoplast
zwitterion
lymph
intracellular fluid
extracellular fluid
interstitial fluid
plasma
vesicular fluid
nucleus
nucleolus
nuclear membrane
nucleoplasm
biological membrane
microvilli
brush border
stereovilli
kinocilia
mitochondria
lysosome
golgi body
ER vesicle
vacuole
ribosome
microtubule
centriole
cilia
flagella
microfilament
peroxisome
inclusion
organelle
cytosol
parenchyma
stroma
fixation
embedding
sectioning
staining
mounting
Susa's
Bouin's
microtechnique
paraffin
balsam
biological stain
basophilic stain
hemotoxylin
acidophilic stain
eosin
H&E
histochemistry
counter staining
squamous
immunocytochemistry
cuboidal
columnar

 

ectoderm
mesoderm
endoderm
avascular
free surface
basal surface
simple tissue
stratified tissue
basal lamina
membrane
peritoneum
visceral
peritoneum
parietal
peritoneum
argyrophilia
silver nitrate
endothelium
mesothelium
polyhedral
goblet cell
neuroepithelium
stratified nuclei
cornified
non-cornified
metaplasia
papillations
cap cell
maculae zonulae
tight connection
zona occludens
intermediate junction
zonula adherans
actin
myosin
tonofibril
macula adherans
desmosome
terminal junction
gap junction
secretion
exocrine
endocrine
mixed gland
intraepithelial gland
merocrine
extraepithelial gland
apocrine
holocrine
sweat gland
mammary gland
sebaceous
serous mucous
myoepithelium
serous membrane
mucous membrane
fascia tendon
ligament
aponeurosis
MPS white fiber
fibril
protofibril
tropocollagen
reticular fiber
cross banding
scurvy
arthritis
elastin
Type IV collagen
ligamentum flava
orcein
GAG

 

PG
fibroblast
fibrocyte
myofibroblast
macrophage
histiocyte
Kupffer cell
dust cell
spleenocyte
littoral cell
mast cell
adventitial cell
heparin
histamine
seratonin
pericyte
adipocyte
Mesenchyme CT
Mucoid CT
Wharton's Jelly
Areolar CT
fibro-elastic teased
Reticular CT
multipotential DICT fibrous CT
osmic acid
adipose
loose CT
alcoholadipose
iron hematoxylin adipose
lymphoid
parenchyma
signet ring cell
white fat
brown fat
DRW
primary bundle
secondary bundle
endotendinium
peritendinium
epitendinium
White fibrous CT
DRY
blood plasma
globulins
albumins
fibrinogen
serum
formed element
erythrocyte
cell hemopoiesis
hemocytoblast
leucocyte
platelet
Hb
crenation
red blood
corpuscle
hemolysis
rouleaux
Cabot's Ring
Howell's-Jolly Body
granular wbc
agranular wbc
neutrophil
polymorphonucleate
eosinophil
basophil
lymphocyte
B-lymphocyte
T-lymphocyte
monocyte
megakaryocyte
thromboplastin
prothrombin
thrombin
fibrin
reticulo-adventitial
stem cell
extramedullary
myelopoiesis
cartilage
blastema
chondroblast
chondrocyte
chondroclast
lacuna
perichondrium
endogeneious growth
interstitial growth
exogeneous growth
capsule
appositional growth
chondromucin
interterritorial matrix
territorial matrix
asbestos transformation
hyalin cartilage
fibrous cartilage
elastic cartilage
chondrification center