HISTOLOGY FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS PROFESSIONAL
PREPARATION MATERIAL
●● Simple cuboidal epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of cubelike cells with large, spherical
central nuclei
Function: secretion and absorption
Location: kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands,
ovary surface
●● simple columnar epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of talls cells with round oval nuclei
Function: Absorption; secretion of mucus enzymes and other substances
Location: Digestive tract
●● Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of cells of differing heights, some not
reaching the free surface.
Function: secrete substances, particularly mucus
Location: upper respiratory tracts, lines th trachea, sperm-carrying ducts.
, ●● Stratified squamous epithelium
Answer: Description: thick membrane composed of several cell layers
Function: protects underlying tissues in areas subjected to abrasion
Location: esophagus, mouth and vagina.
●● Transitional epithelium
Answer: Description: basal cells cuboidal and columnar
Function: stretches readily,permits stored urine to distend urinary organ
Location: lines the ureters, bladder and part of the urethra
●● Connective tissue proper: loose connective tissue, areolar
Answer: Description: gel-like matrix with all three fiber types;
fibroblast, macrophages,mast cells and some white cells.
Function: wraps and cushions organs
Location: under epithelia of body.
●● Connective tissue proper: loose connective tissue, adipose
Answer: Description: matrix as in areolar, but very sparse
Function: provides reserve food fuel
Location: under skin, around kidneys and eyeball, abdomen and breast
●● reticular
CORRECT ANSWERS PROFESSIONAL
PREPARATION MATERIAL
●● Simple cuboidal epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of cubelike cells with large, spherical
central nuclei
Function: secretion and absorption
Location: kidney tubules, ducts and secretory portions of small glands,
ovary surface
●● simple columnar epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of talls cells with round oval nuclei
Function: Absorption; secretion of mucus enzymes and other substances
Location: Digestive tract
●● Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Answer: Description: single layer of cells of differing heights, some not
reaching the free surface.
Function: secrete substances, particularly mucus
Location: upper respiratory tracts, lines th trachea, sperm-carrying ducts.
, ●● Stratified squamous epithelium
Answer: Description: thick membrane composed of several cell layers
Function: protects underlying tissues in areas subjected to abrasion
Location: esophagus, mouth and vagina.
●● Transitional epithelium
Answer: Description: basal cells cuboidal and columnar
Function: stretches readily,permits stored urine to distend urinary organ
Location: lines the ureters, bladder and part of the urethra
●● Connective tissue proper: loose connective tissue, areolar
Answer: Description: gel-like matrix with all three fiber types;
fibroblast, macrophages,mast cells and some white cells.
Function: wraps and cushions organs
Location: under epithelia of body.
●● Connective tissue proper: loose connective tissue, adipose
Answer: Description: matrix as in areolar, but very sparse
Function: provides reserve food fuel
Location: under skin, around kidneys and eyeball, abdomen and breast
●● reticular
