Histology

Histology: The study of the form of structures seen under the microscope. Also called microscopic anatomy, as opposed to gross anatomy which involves structures that can be observed with the naked eye. Traditionally, both gross anatomy and histology (microscopic anatomy) have been studied in the first year of medical school in the U.S. The word "anatomy" comes from the Greek ana- meaning up or through + tome meaning a cutting. Anatomy was once a "cutting up" because the structure of the body was originally learned through dissecting it, cutting it up. The word "histology" came from the Greek "histo-" meaning tissue + "logos", treatise. Histology was a treatise about the tissues of the body and the cells thereof.
Histology

I have studied cranial, epithelial,skeletal, and bone slides. Each were very different. In the lab we did, we were tought how to use a microscope and studied the afore mentioned slides under a 10x focus and then a 40x focus. we were told to draw and identify each slide. We did this and I shall post a good quality picture soon.

Epithelial:

  This is just one example of epithelial tissue. It can also com in squamous, columnar, and pseudo-.

Cranial: is well from your head. It can also come in cuboidal, squamous, columnar, and pseudo-. There are no real good pictures I could find. Sorry.

Bone:

Here are two really good pictures (one of which I stared at under a microscope which was extreamley amazing). This is bone tissue. You can tell it is by the circular pattern in the second picture.

 This will also fall under the skeletal tissue catagory.

Anyways. I was also doing a lab with Cassy, and Jena. We learned how to use the microscope exceedingly well. Focusing was a cinch for us and we all took turns drawing what we saw. Unfortunately Jenna threw our drawings away because they could not be transferred to the computer well. This was a interesting lab, we had to guess at what we saw. Almost like a test to ourselves. And we had fun for this lab which made it worthwhile. Though we could not spell or pronounce any names we learned each slide slowly and it was worthwhile. I would like to thank Mr. Ludwig for that.

please forgive the spelling mistakes spell check broke on me