40 ‫ دفعة‬Histology 3rd term exam

40 ‫ دفعة‬Histology 3rd term exam

1-The most abundant tissue element forming the media of the aorta is:
a. Cardiac muscle.
b. Smooth muscle.
c. Collagen.
d. Elastin.
e. Cartilage.

2- The most abundant tissue element forming the media of small, muscular arteries is:
a. Cardiac muscle.
b. Smooth muscle.
c. Collagen fibers.
d. Elastic fibers.
e. Cartilage.

3. A prominent inner elastic membrane (internal elastic lamina), often appearing in cross
section as a wavy or sinuous line, is characteristic of:
a. Muscular arteries.
b. Small veins.
c. Large veins.
d. Venules.
e. Capillaries.

4. The inner layer of a blood vessel wall, characterised by a simple squamous endothelium
supported by a thin layer of connective tissue, is the:
a. Adventitia.
b. External elastic lamina.
c. Media.
d. Internal elastic lamina.
e. Intima.

5.Endothelium is:
a. Simple squamous epithelial tissue.
b. Stratified squamous epithelial tissue.
c. Simple cuboidal epithelial tissue.
d. Stratified cuboidal epithelial tissue.
e. Simple columnar epithelial tissue

6. Which cell junction, located at intercalated disks, is responsible for electrical

communication between cardiac muscle cells?
a. Macula adherens.
b. Zonula adherens.
c. Zonula occludens.
d. Desmosome.
e. Gap junction.
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7. The sino-atrial (SA) node, the atrio-ventricular (AV) node, and the Purkinje fibers of the
myocardium all consist of specialized:
a. Endothelial cells.
b. Fibroblasts.
c. Nerve cells.
d. Smooth muscle cells.
e. Cardiac muscle cells.

8.Purkinje fibers:
a. Generate electrical impulses.
b. Conduct electrical impulses through the myocardium.
c. Synchronize the heartbeat.
d. Are found along the innermost layer of the myocardium.
e. All of the above

9.Thick, collagenous rings located at the sites of origin of large vessels and valves of the
heart are referred to as:
a. The fibrous skeleton of the heart.
b. The sino-atrial nodes.
c. Intercalated discs.
d. Cusps of the valves.
e. None of the above

10.Vasa vasorum are:

a. Blood vessels of the myocardium.
b. Nerves that supply the blood vessels.
c. Nerves of the heart.
d. Blood vessels within the walls of the blood vessels.
e. Blood vessels of the endocardium

11.Intercalated discs:
a. Include desmosomes.
b. Are found at the boundary between adjacent cardiac muscle cells.
c. Include gap junctions.
d. May appear as dark or light bands by light microscopy.
e. All of the above

12.The junctions that are the basis for electrical conduction from one cardiac muscle cell to
another are:
a. Desmosomes.
b. Occluding junctions.
c. Gap junctions
d. Adhering junctions

13.Undifferentiated cells around the perimeter of capillaries are:

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a. Pericytes.
b. Parasites.
c. Fenestrations.
d. Endothelial cells.
e. Basal lamina.

14.Continuous endothelium is found in:

a. Endocrine organs.
b. Kidney.
c. Lung.
d. Spleen.
e. All of the above

15.Fenestrated endothelium is found in:

a. Endocrine organs.
b. Kidney.
c. Intestinal villi.
d. Spleen.
e. All of the above

16. Which function is carried out by all lymphoid tissue and

organ:
a. Extramedullary hemopoiesis
b. Filtration of the blood
c. Production of lymphocyte
d. Destruction of old erythrocytes

17. Which cell type gives rise to both memory and effector cells and is primarily associated
with humane immunity:
a. B-lymphocyte
b. Reticular cells
c. T-lymphocyte
d. NK cells
e. Macrophage

18. Which lymphoid organ became less functional with age:

a. Splenic red pulp
b. Lymph nodule
c. Lingual tonsils
d. Thymus

19. In lymph nodes, the T-lymphocyte are found mainly in:

a. The cortical sinuses
b. The outer cortex
c. The deep cortex of lymph nodule
d. The primary lymphatic nodule
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e. The germinal center

20. Destruction of RBCs and recycling of iron occurs mainly in:

a. Lymphatic nodes
b. Tonsils
c. Player's patches
d. Spleen
e. Liver

21.It squeeze salivary gland secretion:

-basket cells
-Myoepithelial cells
-Acinar cell
-inner endothelial cells

22.Hassall s corpuscles are a unique and characteristic feature of:

a. medulla of thymus
b. Cortex of lymph nodes
c. Spleen
d. Cortex of thymus
23. Melanocytes, that cause pigmentation, are found in :
a. Stratum germinativum
b. Clear layer ( stratum lucidum)
c. granular layer (stratum granulosum)
d. stratum spinosum

24. The apocrine sweat glands start functioning;

a. at puberty
b. at old age
c. during childhood
d. during adulthood

25. In anatomical hepatic lobule, blood flow from ;

a. the center to the peripheral
b. The peripheral to the center
c. the central vein to the portal area
d. The portal area to the central vein

26. What is the change occur in the gastro-esophegeal junction:

1. the muscularis gains an inner oblique muscle.
2.the mucus esophageal gland in submucosa disappear.
3. the esophageal lumen narrow.
4. the gastric glands appears in stomach corium.
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27. The secretion of sebaceous glands is

A. sweat
B. saliva
C. sebum
D. serum

28. The cells that line the stomach and perforated by openings called foveola gastricae:
A. Mucus surface cells
B. peptic cells (chief cells)
C. partial cells (oxyntic cells)
D. Mucous Neck cells

29. Which cells secrete pepsinogen?

A. Parietal cells
B. oxyntic cells
C. chief cells
D.

30.Embryologically, which layer of the GIT is derived form the endoderm?

A. endotheliam
B. submucosa
C. musclosa
D. Lamina propia

31. cells that secrete lysozyme antibacterial enzyme are

A. paneth cells
B. peptic cells (chief cells)
C. partial cells (oxyntic cells)
D. argentaffin cells

32. Argentaffin (entro-endocrine AUPD) cells are

A. entro-endocrine cells
B. partial cells
C. pepsinogen
D. Undifferentiated stem cell

33. Which organ is partially encapsulated and covered by nonkeratinzied stratified

squamous epithelium
A. palatine tonsils
B. Perry’s patches
C. thymus
D. Appendix

34. Which of the following is a feature of the pancreas

A. reticular stroma forms the background of the stroma
B. thin capsule made up of dense C.T
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C. trabeculae are dense and divide the gland into lobe and lobule
D.Adipose tissue surrounding acini & ducts

35. We find mainly in the submandibular gland:

A. serous acini
B. mucus acini
C. mucoserous acini
D. mixed

36. Which of the following describes the classical lobe of liver:

A. hexagonal mass of liver tissue drained by a central vein
B.
C.
D.

37.Function of the Kupffer cells:

A. phagocytes debris, bacteria, foreign bodies and organisms
B.
C.
D.

38. What are the Ito cells?

A. hepatocytes
B. satellite cells
C. Reticular fiber
D.

39. High venules are lined by:

A. simple squamous epithelium
B. simple columnar epithelium
C. pseudo stratified columnar epithelium
D. stratified squamous epithelium

40. Which of the following cells give raise to other cells in the mucosa of the stomach:
a. Undifferentiated stem cells
b. Entero-Endocrine
c. Parietal cells (oxyntic cells)
d. Mucous neck cells

41. Breakdown the secretion of Apocrine sweat glands is responsible for :

A. sebaceous glands
B. hair follicle
C. body odor
D.

42. Which of the following is composed of dermal loose connective Tissue?

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A. Epidermis
B. Reticular layer of dermis
C. Hypodermis
D. papillary layer of dermis

43- A gland, described as an exocrine, compound tubulo-alveolar, serous gland :

a. Submandibular
b. parotid
c. pancreas
d. sublingual

44. Which part of the pancreas contains acidophilic zymogenic granules :

a. apical cytoplasm of acinar cells
b. basal cytoplasm of acinar cells
c. cytoplasm of centero acinar cells
d. cytoplasm of myoepithelial cells

45 which part of the esophagus has striated involuntary muscle fibers:

a. Upper 1/3
b. Middle 1/3
c. Lower 1/3
d. Entire of esophagus

46. Its contraction squeezes sebaseous gland secretion :

a. arrector pili muscle
b. smooth muscles
c. skeletal muscles
d. cardiac muscles

47. Which of the following considered as antigene presenting cell:

A. Langerhans cells
B. Merkel’s cell
C. keratinocytes
D. Melanocyte

48. Are of ectodermal origin from neural crest :

a. Merkle's cells
b. Melanocytes
c. keratinocytes
d. Langerhans cells

49. The muscular layer of blood vessels is called:

a. Tunica intima.
B. Tunica media.
C. Tunica adventia.
D. Endothelium.
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E. Mesothelium.
.
The boundaries that separate dermis from epidermis:
A. Merkel's cells
B. Papillary line
C. Melanocytes