WORKSHEET #8: Circulatory System & Lymphoid Tissue

NAME: Group:

Student Number:

Instructions
1. Answer each question concisely and completely. Write legibly
2. Color your slide illustrations as viewed in the microscope using either grey / colored pencils
and or crayons.
3. NO COPYING FROM YOUR CLASSMATES

EXERCISE 1. CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

1. Draw the cardiac muscle. Label the nucleus and intercalated discs (Slide #17).
 2. Draw Label the artery and vein in the space provided. Fill in the table (Slides #9 and 10)

Artery Vein

Lumen

Thickness of
the wall

Thickest coat

Rigidity of the
wall

Internal elastic
membrane

Muscle and
elastic tissue

Presence of
valves

Tunica intima

Vasa Vasorum
3. What are the types of capillary and give examples of each?

4. Get a microsection of the liver (Slide #52). Draw and label the structures Be able to identify
the central vein, hepatic artery, portal vein and hepatic sinusoids
EXERCISE 2. LYMPHOID SYSTEM

1. Differentiate the following organs as to:

Thymus Lymph node Spleen MALT

Location

Size

Presence of
cortex /
medulla
Presence of
lymphoid
nodues
Histologic
feature

2. What are Peyer’s patches? Where are they located?

3. Draw and label the following:

A. lymph node (Slide #13)

B. spleen (Slide #12)

C. appendix (Slide #49)

Prepared and edited by Katrina Balmores, MD
Last updated: 2023 May 14
UPHSD – JFSM Associate Professor
References:
diFIORE’S Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations (12th edition)
Junqueira’s Basic Histology (TEXT AND ATLAS), 13th edition