5 Important Tips To Remember When Studying Histology

Question: Histology

Answer: The study of tissues.

Question: Where tissues are found.

Answer: Organs

Question: How tissues are collected.

Answer: Biopsy.

Question: How diseases are determined.

Answer: Comparing normal and abnormal tissues.

Question: True or false: tissues can look vastly different even from the same organ.

Answer: True.

Question: True or false: form = function.

Answer: True

Question: Tissue can look vastly different even in the same organ when these events occur.

Answer: Directions it was cut, tissue it was taken from, and type of stain used.

Question: Developed in the womb =

Answer: Embryonic tissue of origin.

Question: How tissues are categorized.

Answer: Types determined by function and embryonic tissue of origin.

Question: What can be found in almost every organ? The four tissues:

Answer: Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous tissues.