Human Structure Virtual Histology
    Interpretation of Microscopic Structures in Histological Sections
     
     

    The body abounds with tubes of various diameters.
    • The tubes most often seen in histological sections are blood vessels and their accompanying lymphatics (the tubes that carry lymph).
    • Also, many glands are furnished with tubular ducts that carry their secretions.
    • Tubes are not difficult to recognize if they are cut transversely.
    • But if they are cut longitudinally or obliquely, or if they are cut at a site where they curve, it is important to think in three dimensions to recognize them as tubes.

    Examine a specimen such as kidney with many tubes in many different orientations. Identify tubular structures cut transversely, longitudinally, and obliquely.

    Interpreting microscopic structures in histological sections.



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