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| An upper free surface that is exposed to the body exterior or the cavity of an organ |
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| A lower attatched surface |
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| Composed of two or more cell layers stacked one on top of the other |
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| Flattened scalelike cells |
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| Cells that are approximately as tall as they are wide |
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| Cells that are tall and column shaped |
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| Simple Squamous Epithelium |
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| Flattened cells with a single layer of cells; Used for filtration in the lungs and kidneys |
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| 'inner covering'; Lining in lymphatic vessels and in all hollow organs of the cardiovascular system |
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| 'middle covering'; found in serous membranes lining the ventral body cavity and covering its organs |
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| Simple Cuboidal Epithelium |
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| Single layer of cells as tall as they are wide; used for secretion and absorption in the ducts of glands |
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| Simple columnar Epithelium |
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| Single layer of tall, closely packed cells; For absorption and secretion within the digestive tract |
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| Psuedostratified Columnar Epithelium |
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| Cells that vary in height which gives a false sense of multiple cell layers when there is only one; Secreting cells that line most of the respritory tract |
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| Contains two or more cell layers |
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| Stratified Squamous Epithelium |
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| More widespread of the stratified epithelium; several layers; used for protection; External Skin |
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| Stratified Cuboidal Epithelium |
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| Multiple layers of square cells; Found mostly in the ducts of some of the larger glands |
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| Stratified Columnar epithelium |
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| Multiple layers of cells where the apical layer is made up of columnar cells; Used at junctions between two other types of epithelia; |
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| Cells which vary in appearance due to their ability to strech (distend); Forms the lining of hollow urinary organs |
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