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Histology Image Review
Chapter 4. Epithelial Tissue
Sections: Simple Squamous Epithelium, Simple Cuboidal Epithelium, Simple Columnar Epithelium, Stratified Squamous Epithelium, Stratified Cuboidal Epithelium, Stratified Columnar Epithelium, Pseudostratified Epithelium, Transitional Epithelium, Epithelial Membrane Specialization, Exocrine Glandular Tissue, Endocrine Glandular Tissue.
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|  | Epithelial tissue, or epithelium, is composed of tightly adherent cells with little intercellular space. The tissue lacks blood vessels of its own and relies on the diffusion of nutrients from the underlying connective tissue with which it is intimately associated. Epithelial cells give up their waste products to the intercellular connective tissue through which the wastes diffuse to the blood stream for their removal. All types of epithelial tissue rest on a basement membrane, or basal lamina, composed of connective tissue elements.
Epithelial tissue is often found at a surface where it functions..."
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