“Do you want to die yet?

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A Micro Block 4 Practice Exam

Made just for you by none other than:

Rachel Boggus
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Be specific
 AMPULLA of oviduct
• No glands
• No lymphoid tissue so not ileum or
appendix
• Highly folded so ampulla, isthmus would
not be this folded
• Only one lumen so its not seminal vesicle
bc there would be lots of lumens if it was
that
What is this cell?
 Pancreatic Acinar Cell
• What we are seeing is 5-6 cells making up a
secretory end piece for the EXOCRINE part of
the pancreas
• We see zymogen granules, which are black, in
the apex of the cell
• We can also see centroacinar cells in the middle
– a clue it is the pancreas and not some kind of
salivary gland
– salivary glands would never have cells in the middle
of the secretory end pieces
 Anchoring villus
• Reaches all the way to the other side
• Also note fibrinoid, the eosinophilic stuff
with no nuclei
• Note anchoring villi touching the maternal
DECIDUA
Blue? Yellow?
Blue = Kupffer cell; Yellow = Ito cell
• Well we see the sinusoid, and we see that it is
discontinuous, must be liver or spleen
• See a cell in the space beneath the endothelial
cell, this, by definition, is the ito cell
– Look at all the fat/lipid in it as well
• Then we see a cell in the sinusoid lumen, this
must be the kupffer cell eating up old RBCs
– The mac has HETEROGENEOUS GRANULES bc it
is gobbling up different stuff
For good meaure here is
another example
 Secondary oocyte
• We see an antrum amongst the granulosa
cells
• It is filled with liquor folliculi
 ILEUM
• We still see villi, so must be small intestine
• We see peyers patches full of lymphocyes
Whats this?
 INACTIVE mammary gland
• Lots of CT between the glands
• Not a lot of glands, so not pregnant/active
• No milk in cells so not lactating
 RETE TESTIS
• You see seminiferous tubules, so we are in
the testes
• Only have a few choices now: seminif
tubules, rete testes, efferent ductss,
epididymis
• Has simple columnar and is in the
mediastinum testes, so is rete testis
What type of cell is this?
 CHIEF cell
• In the parathyroid – see two types of cells,
chief cells and oxyphils
• Chief cells are smaller, oxyphils are bigger
• Oxyphils have TONS of mitochondria
 Medium/muscular artery
• Prominent internal elastic lamina
• Lots of smooth muscle in the wall
 What is this?

• And here it is closer up…….

 APPENDIX
• Has columnar epithelium like the small
intestine and colon
• Still has crypts but NO VILLI
• A TON of lymphocytes in the submucosa,
pretty much surrounding the entire lumen
 Bronchus
• Cartilage is in pieces
• Its in the lung (we can see lung tissue
around it), so not trachea
 Zona Fasciculata
• This is the adrenal cortex – you can see
the capsule at the outermost part and then
3 different morphologies of cells
• It is in the middle between the glomerulosa
and the reticularis
• Usually the longest part
 Red = pericyte; yellow =
CONTINUOUS capillary
• You can even see the tight junction holding
the two sides of the endothelial cell
together
• Pinocytic vesicles are visible as well
 Jejunum
• Those are some tall ass villi
• No glands, so not duo
• No peyers patches, so not ileum
 Bile canaliculus
• In between 2 hepatocytes
• Remember, wall of canaliculus is made up
of hepatocytes, while the wall of the
sinusoids is made up of an endothelial cell
Where are we?
 Pars nervosa/neurohypophysis
• We see herring bodies
• We don’t see a lot of cells – all that is here
is just pituicytes and axons holding ADH
and prolactin
 TERMINAL bronchiole
• No cartilage in the wall
• Uninterrupted epithelium – no
outpouchings for alveoli
 Collecting duct
• We see thin limbs
• By the time we see thin limbs we are deep
in the medulla where only collecting ducts
are
?
 VAS DEFERENS
• Roundish lumen vs. star or gecko shaped
like ureter or urethra, respectively
• THREE layers of smooth muscle
 Corpora albicans
• Remnant of the corpus luteum if the egg is
not fertilized
What gland are we in?
 CORTEX OF ADRENAL
• Look at all the lipid!!!!
• We would also see these:
And these….
• We love mitochondria with tubular cristae
 Lymphatic vessel
• You can see the valves and VERY THIN
wall with NO smooth muscle
Tissue?
 SPLEEN
• Its RED and you can see the white pulp
mixed in there
• Each white pulp has a central arteriole
This is???
Here is a hint:
 The prostate
• Note fibromuscular stroma
What are these?
 Efferent ducts
• UNDULATING/WAVY lumen
• These cells have CILIA
• b = respiratory bronchiole with alveolus (a)
in its wall; any time you have an
outpouching for an alveoli it must be
respiratory – if the epithelium is continuous
it is terminal
• d & c = alveolar duct - its wall consists of
alveoli
• e = alveoli
What tissue is this?
 The LIVER
• We see rows/plates of hepatocytes
• Only one main cell type – the hepatocyte
• CT surrounds the liver lobules

• Lets get a little more specific, shall we…..

This is called….?
 A portal triad
• Made up of a bile duct with cuboidal
epithelium, hepatic artery with small round
lumen and lots of smooth muscle, and
portal vein branch with large lumen
• Also be on the lookout for lymphatics and
peripheral nerves
Name this cell
 PLASMA CELL
• “cartwheel” nucleus
• Shitloads of RER
• Nucleus displaced off to one side
Tissue?
Here it is up close
 COLON
• Taeniae coli
• No villi, but still have crypts
• No glands
• Lots of goblet cells
 INTRAlobular duct
• This is a mammary gland
• We see the secretory end pieces
• We see the duct going into it
• This is in comparison to an interlobular
duct that would be in between the lobes of
the glands
These are?
 EJACULATORY DUCTS
• We see prostate tissue in the middle – this
will eventually form the utriculus that will
exit the prostate into the urethra at the
urethral crest – anyone lost???
• Then, to each side of the soon-to-be
utriculus, we have ejaculatory ducts
This cell is a….?
 Type II Pneumocyte
• We see lamellar bodies filled with
surfactant
What tissue are we in? Be specific
 Adenohypophysis/pars distalis
of pituitary
• We can see three different morphologies
of cells – we see pink ones, purple ones,
and clear ones  these are the acidophils,
basophils, and chromophobes
 DCT
• We see glomeruli
• We see tubes that have more
mitochondria and fuzzier tops than this
one
Tissue?
 VAGINA
• We see the washed out epithelium
• We see NO MUSCULARIS MUCOSA –
this is not the digestive tract people!
• We see absolutely NO GLANDS
Ignore the boxes. Whats the
blue arrow?
 Gland of Littre
• We see the urethra – gecko shape
• So this is the corpus spongiosum of the penis
• We see the venous plexus
• We see glands – called the glands of Littre
– When distinguishing venous plexus from glands look
at the epithelium – if it is simple squam epithelial cells
then it has to be venous plexus. If it is columnar
epithelium it is a gland.
 DUODENUM
• Do we see glands in submucosa? Hi,
Brunners.
• Do we see villi?
Blue = follicular cell AKA principal cell
Yellow = C-cell AKA parafollicular cell

• We see colloid, must be thyroid

• We only have 2 options are far as cells are
concerned
• The one bordering colloid is follicular, the
one not bordering colloid is parafollicular
What cell is this?
 Sertoli cell
• Has triangular nucleus with prominent
nucleolus
• We see it near the basal lamina amongst
the spermatogonia making up the blood-
testes barrier
Be specific
 AMNION
• This is the umbilical cord
• Two arteries, one vein in the middle
• There is Whartons jelly, the CT stroma,
and then there is the epithelium called
amnion
 Pituitary gland
• Adenohypohysis at the left
• Neurohypophysis at the right
 Proliferative endometrium
• Glands are straight – no sacculations
• Don’t forget about the functional zone
(sloughed off) and basal zone (not
sloughed)
Tissue?
 Pineal gland
• Brain sand and 2 types of cells –
pinealocytes and glial cells with the more
condensed, darker nuclei (aka astrocytes
in this pic)
What is this cell
 ENTEROCYTE
• Its columnar
• Has microvilli
• Next to a goblet cell
Where are
we???
 ESOPHAGUS
• We can see glands
in the submucosa
on the right side of
the pic
• We can see a
muscularis mucosa
• We can see the
strat squam
nonkeratinized
epithelium
Pink = JG cells; Blue = macula densa
 Blue = zona pellucida; green =
theca interna
• Note the granulosa cells around it
• Oocyte is in the middle
• Outside the theca interna look at the theca
externa = nuclei of these is rounder and
the cells arent as flattened
Tissue?
 GALLBLADDER
• Small wisps of smooth muscle
• NO GOBLET CELLS
• SIMPLE columnar epi – in oviduct you
have peg and secretory cells, in seminal
vesicle you have a more pseudostratified
appearance
What tissue is this and what is
the blue arrow
 SUBLINGUAL salivary gland
• 1:1 mucus to serous ratio
• Blue arrow is a striated duct – intercalated
has squamous epi and excretory would be
in the CT septa
Red = collagen; blue = fibroblast
• Whenever you see collagen, think
fibroblast
• Collagen is extracellular and all the fibers
are perfectly round and the same size vs.
glycogen that has fuzzy border and is in
clumps that are different sizes
Be specific
 FUNDUS of stomach
• Pit to gland ratio is like 1:3
• In cardiac/body it is 1:1
Tissue?
 PANCREAS
• DON’T FORGET • Also note the acinar cells
and their 2 colors:
TO LOOK FOR basophilic at bottom due
THE ISLETS, to RER, eosinophilic at
apices bc of zymogen
USE A HIGHER granules
MAG TO GET A
GOOD PEEK.
You cant miss
them.
 NECK of a gastric gland
• Mucus neck and parietal cells here
• Parietal cells and chief cells in base
• Gastric pits have surface mucous cells
only