Adipose Tissue

Function: Provides reserve food fuel, insulates, supports and protects organs.

Location: Under skin, around kidneys and eyeballs, in bones and within abdomen, in breasts

Areolar Connective Tissue

Function: Wraps and cusions organs, plays and important role in inflammation, holds and conveys tissue fluid

Location: Under epithelia, e.g. forms lamina propria of mucous membranes, packages organs, surrounds capillaries

Blood

Function: Transport of respiratory gasses, nutrients, wastes, and other substances

Location: Contained within blood vessels

Compact Bone

Function: Supports and Protects, acts as a lever on which muscles work, stores other minerals and fat

Location: Bones

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Dense Regular Connective Tissue

Function: Attaches muscles to bones or muscles  and attaches bones to bones

Location: Tendons, most ligaments, aponeuroses

Elastic Cartilage

Function: Maintains the shape of a structure while allowing great flexibility

Location: Supports the external ear (pinna); epiglottis

Fibrocartilage

Function: Tensile strength with the ability to absorb compressive shock

Location: Intervertebral disks, pubic symphysis, disks of knee joint

Multipolar Neuron

Function: Transmit electrical signals from sensory receptors and to effectors which control their activity.

Location: Brain, spinal cord, nerves

Ciliated Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium

Function: Secretion, propulsion of mucus by ciliary action

Location: Lines the trachea and most the upper respiratory tract

Reticular Connective Tissue

Function: Form the soft skeleton (stroma) to support the lymphatic organs.

Location: Liver, Kidney, Spleen, Lymph Nodes, and Bone Marrow

Simple Columnar Epithelium

Function: Absorption, secretion of mucus, enzymes, and other substances.

Location: Lines digestive tract (stomach to anal canal), gallbladder and excretory ducts of some glands.

Simple Cuboidal Epithelium

Function: Secretion and absorption

Location: Kidney tubules, ducts, and secretory portions of small glands; ovary surface

Simple Squamous Epithelium

Function: Allows passage of materials via diffusion and filtration, secretes lubricating substances in serosae

Location: Air sacs of the lung; kidney glomeruli; lining of heart, blood vesses, and lymphatic vessels; lining of ventral body cavity.

Stratified Squamous Epithelium

Function: Protects underlying tissues in areas subjected to abrasion

Location: (non-keratinized) Linings of the esophagus, mouth, and vagina; (keratinized) epidermis