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Ultrathin sections are:

A special stain for lipids is:

_____ technique gives serial sections

Acidophilic structures are stained by _____ stain.

Carbohydrates can be stained by _____ stain.

What is one advantage of using the freezing technique?

What is a specific stain for carbohydrates?

Epithelium is subjected to continuous degeneration and regeneration.

Simple cubical epithelium lines the trachea.

Fallopian tubes are lined by:

Simple columnar secretory epithelium is:

Stratified squamous epithelium is:

Which type of epithelium can change its cellular arrangement on distension?

Simple branched tubular glands are:

Which of the following is characteristic of Neuroepithelium?

Lung alveoli are lined by simple squamous epithelium.

The esophagus is lined by transitional epithelium.

Glandular epithelium is specialized in production of secretions.

Compound glands have an unbranched duct.

Yellow elastic fibers form wavy bundles.

C.T. proper matrix is rigid.

Mast cells produce histamine.

Brown adipose tissue has less blood supply than white adipose tissue.

Fat cells are responsible for:

Healing and growth of connective tissue is a function of which cell type?

Which characteristic is NOT true of white collagenous fibers?

Which stain is used to dye yellow elastic fibers yellow?

Which characteristic is TRUE of the matrix of connective tissue proper?

Which of the following is characteristic of plasma cells?

Which cell type originates from a blood monocyte?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of reticular connective tissue?

Cartilage is a type of connective tissue proper.

Hyaline cartilage is pale blue and translucent.

White fibro-cartilage is present in the semilunar cartilage of the knee.

What is the major source of nutrition for chondrocytes?

Which of the following is a component of the matrix of hyaline cartilage?

Which of the following is NOT a site where yellow elastic fibrocartilage is found?

Bone is a calcified osteoid tissue with a hard matrix.

What are the major components of bone?

The periosteum is comprised of an outer fibrous layer and an inner osteogenic layer.

Osteocytes are located inside:

Osteocytes have deep basophilic cytoplasm with a negative Golgi image.

Osteoblasts are responsible for bone resorption.

The Haversian system is the structural unit of compact bone.

What cell type is present in the inner osteogenic layer of the periosteum?

What is the origin of osteocytes?

What is the function of osteoclasts?

Inner circumferential lamellae of compact bone are present under the periosteum.

Cancellous bone is characterized by being solid with no holes.

The structural unite of cancellous bone is the Haversian system.

Cancellous bone is present in young embryonic bone.

Bone matrix contains type I collagenous fibers.

The Haversian system is the structural unit of compact bone.

Skeletal muscle fibers are involuntary.

Cardiac muscle fibers are branching and anastomosing.

The functional contractile unit of skeletal muscle is a _______.

In a sarcomere, both ends of _______ filaments are free.

Each light band in a myofibril is divided at its center by a dark line called the H-zone.

Myofibrils are contractile elements transversly arranged in skeletal muscle fibers.

What is the distance between two successive Z-lines in a myofibril called?

How does the depolarization wave reach the depth of a striated muscle fiber?

Where are intercalated discs found?

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of smooth muscle fibers?

Smooth muscle fibers are responsible for maintaining tonic contractions for long periods.

Smooth muscle fibers produce peristaltic movements.

Nerve impulses travel in which direction along an axon?

Dendrites have an irregular surface.

The function of the myelin sheath is to insulate nerve impulses.

What is an example of a myelinated nerve with a neurolemma?

What is an example of a multipolar nerve cell?

Nerve Ganglia are collections of nerve cells and nerve fibers outside of the Central Nervous System (CNS)

Sympathetic ganglia are thicker than Spinal ganglia.

Spinal ganglion nerve cells are multipolar.

Sympathetic ganglion nerve cells are always small.

Nerve cells in Sympathetic ganglia are arranged in groups or rows.

Nerve fibers in Spinal ganglia are thinly or non-myelinated.

Myelin sheath is stained black with Hematoxylin and Eosin stain.

Sympathetic nerve fibers can be myelinated.