LOOK ALIKE HISTOLOGY

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STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM &
TRANSITIONAL EPITHELIUM

STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS TRANSITIONAL

• Surface cells flattened and dehydrated • Large surface cells rounded and bulging
• Basal cuboidal cells become sqaumous • Cells remain cuboidal or columnar
• Many cell layers • Few cell layers
Squamous Transitional
epithelium epithelium
HYALINE CARTILAGE AND FIBROCARTILAGE
HYALINE CARTILAGE
• Homogenous, nonfibrillar matrix
• Lacunae often contain two or more cells
• Lacunae rather evenly spaced and often
rimmed with basophilic matrix
FIBRO CARTILAGE
• Collagenous fibres in matrix
• Cells usually in individual lacunae
• Lacunae more widely spaced, arranged in
rows or clusters with no basophilic
matrix
CARDIAC AND SKELETAL MUSCLE

CARDIAC MUSCLE SKELETAL MUSCLE

• Central nuclei • Peripheral nuclei
• Branching fibres • Non-branching fibres
• Cross striations faint • Cross striations prominent
• Intercalated disks present • No intercalated disk
Cardiac muscle Skeletal muscle
PAROTID AND SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS

PAROTID GLAND SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND

• All serous alveoli • Alveoli mostly serous
• No demilunes • Some mucous alveoli with serous
• Numerous fat cells demilunes
• Some fat cells
Parotid gland Submandibular
gland
SUBMANDIBULAR AND SUBLINGUAL GLANDS
SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND
• Mostly serous, some mucous alveoli
• Serous demilunes on some mucous
alveoli
• Fewer fat cells
SUBLINGUAL GLAND
• Mucous alveoli equal or exceed serous
alveoli in number
• Many mucous alveoli with serous
demilunes
• Occasional fat cells
Submandibular Sublingual gland
gland
DUODENUM AND ILEUM

DUODENUM ILEUM
• Brunner’s glands in submucosa • No glands in submucosa
• Peyer’s patches in lamina propria
Duodenum Ileum
SMALL INTESTINE AND GALL BLADDER

SMALL INTESTINE GALL BLADDER

• Many villi • No true villi, mucosal folds resemble villi
• Abundant goblet cells • No goblet cells (except in neck region)
• No diverticula • Diverticula (sinuses) present
• Two distinct muscle layers • Muscle layers thin and interlacing
Small intestine Gall bladder
URETER AND OVIDUCT (ISTHMUS)
URETER
• Transitional epithelium
• Outer circular; inner longitudinal muscle
layers
OVIDUCT (ISTHMUS)
• Lumen filled with cellular debris and
secretion
• Pseudostratified non-ciliated epithelium
• Interlacing muscle layers
Ureter Oviduct
PROSTATE AND SEMINAL VESICLE
PROSTATE
• Clusters of alveolar-type glands
• Abundance or smooth muscles (fibromuscular)
• Limited secretions and cellular debris in lumen
• Contretions may be present
• Thick core of lamina propria project into lumen
of the alveoli
SEMINAL VESICLE
• Large ductile organ, no alveoli
• Less smooth muscle
• Lumen Partially filled with secretion and debris
• No contentions
• Extensive mucosal folds extend into lumen
Prostate Seminal vesicle
LIP AND VAGINA

LIP VAGINA
• Arteries predominate • Venous plexus prominent
• The leucocytes • Many leucocytes, occasional lymph
• Mucous (labial) glands usually present nodule

• Skeletal muscle fibres • No glands

• Smooth muscle fibres
• Collagenous fibres conspicuous
• Collagenous fibres indistinct
Lip Vagina
ACTIVE MAMMARY GLAND AND THYROID GLAND

ACTIVE MAMMARY GLAND THYROID GLAND

• Glandular or hyaline secretion in
expanded alveoli
• Fat droplets in alveoli
• Excretory ducts present
• Lobulated
• Clear hyaline colloidal in follicles
• Vacuoles may be present in colloidal
• No ducts
• No lobules
Active breast Thyroid gland
SPLEEN, LYMPH NODE AND THYMUS

SPLEEN LYMPH NODE

• Heavy capsule with trabecular • Medullary cords prominent
• Eccentric central arteries in white pulp • Lymph sinuses prominent
• No cortex and medulla • Large subcapsular
• Has red and white pulps • Many lymphoid follicles
SPLEEN, LYMPH NODE AND THYMUS

THYMUS
• Very thin capsule
• Hassal’s bodies (corpuscles)
• Medulla and cortex in each lobe
• Lobules are blocks of tissue
Spleen Lymph node

Thymus
STOMACH (FUNGUS, PYLORUS AND CARDIA)

STOMACH (FUNDUS) STOMACH (PYLORUS)

• Pits narrow and shallow • Pit open and deep
• Straight, long, tubular glands • Quite short, coiled glands
• Many parietal cells and chief cells • Mucous type cells, few parietal cells
• Found in body and fundic regions • May be associated with duodenum
STOMACH (FUNGUS, PYLORUS AND CARDIA)

STOMACH (CARDIA)
• Open gastric pits
• Slightly coiled shallow glands
• Only mucous-type cells
• No islet tissue
Stomach Stomach
(Fundus) (Pylorus)

Stomach (Cardia)
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