Annexure A

Identification Points for Histology Slides for 2nd Year MBBS Class

DISGESTIVE SYSTEM

1. Tongue:
a) Lingual papillae of various types
b) Skeletal muscle fibres
2. Esophagus:
a) Stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium
b) Submucosal glands
3. Stomach Fundus & Body:
a) Shallow gastric pits
b) Gastric glands containing chief cells and parietal cells
4. Stomach-Pylorus:
a) Deep gastric pits
b) Pyloric glands lined mostly by mucous cells
5. Duodenum:
a) Leaf shaped villi
b) Brunner’s glands (submucosal glands)
6. Jejunum:
a) Tall rounded villi / finger like villi
b) Crypts of Leiberkuhn in lamina propria ] Any One of b, c
c) Muscularis externa / inner circular outer longitudinal ]
7. Ileum:
a) Club-shaped villi
b) Peyer’s patches
8. Colon:
a) Simple columnar epithelium with abundant goblet cells
b) Villi are absent

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9. Appendix:
a) Star-shaped lumen
b) Prominent lymph nodules in lamina propria
10. Rectum:
a) Rectal folds lined by simple columnar epithelium with abundant goblet cells
b) Muscularis mucosa & submucosa extending into the rectal folds
11. Parotid Gland:
a) All serous acini
b) Striated / intercalated / interlobular ducts
12. Sublingual Gland:
a) Predominant mucous acini and few serous acini
b) Few serous demilunes ] Any One of b, c
c) Very few intercalated ducts ]
13. Submandibular Gland:
a) Predominant serous acini
b) Many serous demilunes
14. Pancreas:
a) Serous acini
b) Islets of Langerhans
15. Liver:
a) Cords of hepatocytes radiating from the central vein
b) Hepatic sinusoids ] Any One of b, c
c) Portal triad ]
16. Gall Bladder:
a) Mucosal folds lined by simple tall columnar epithelium
b) Fibromuscular layer outer to mucosa

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 URINARY SYSTEM
17. Kidney:
a) Renal corpuscles
b) Sections of proximal and distal convoluted tubules
18. Ureter:
a) Transitional epithelium
b) Star shaped small lumen ] any one of b, c
c) Inner longitudinal & outer circular smooth muscle layers ]
19. Urinary Bladder:
a) Transitional epithelium
b) A thick smooth muscle coat
20. Testis:
a) Seminiferous tubules lined by spermatogenous cells and sertoli cells
b) Groups of Leydig cells in the intertubular connective tissue
21. Dustus Epididymis:
a) Pseudostratified columnar epithelium with stereocilia
b) Numerous cut sections of the duct
22. Ductus Deferens:
a) Pseudostratified columnar epithelium with stereocilia
b) Thick muscularis externa with 3 layers of smooth muscle fibres
23. Seminal Vesicles:
a) Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
b) Highly convoluted lumen with crypts and cavities
24. Prostate:
a) Glandular acini containing corpora amylacea
b) Fibromuscular stroma in between the acini
25. Ovary:
a) Outer surface covered by simple cuboidal epithelium
b) Ovarian follicles in various stages of development in cortex

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26. Fallopian Tubes:
a) Simple columnar ciliated epithelium
b) Very prominent mucosal folds
27. Uterus: (in proliferative phase)
a) Endometrium with simple columnar epithelium
b) Simple tubular glands in lamina propria
28. Vagina:
a) Stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium
b) No glands ] any one of b, c
c) Thick muscular layer ]
29. Mammary glands-inactive state:
a) Lobules and abundant inter lobular connective tissue
b) Cord like tubules lined by simple cuboidal epithelium
30. Mammary gland (lactation state):
a) Alveoli of various sizes and shapes containing secretions
b) Scanty connective tissue stroma
31. Thyroid gland:
a) Follicles lined by simple cuboidal epithelium
b) Colloid in follicles ] any one of b, c
c) Parafollicular cells ]
32. Parathyroid gland:
a) Anastomosing cords of chief cells
b) Oxyphil cells
33. Pituitary gland:
a) Chromophiles and chromoprobes
b) Acidophils and basophils
34. Adrenal gland:
a) Three zones of cortex (Zona glomerulosa, fasciculata and reticularis)
b) Medulla with irregular cords of chromaffin cells and sinusoids

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 SPECIAL SENSES
35. Eye Lid:
a) Thin skin with hair follicles
b) Tarsal plate containing tarsal glands
36. Cornea:
a) Stratified squamous non keratinized epithelium
b) Bowman’s membrane, substantia propria and Descemet’s membrane
37. Retina:
a) Ten layers
b) Rods & Cones present
38. Pinna:
a) Thin skin
b) Elastic cartilage

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