Types of Glands
You Are The Doctor
What Am I?
Where am I found? Epithelial tissue edition
I am a cell. What do I do?
100

Where would you find a tubular coiled gland?

Merocine sweat glands

100

Your patient has a second degree burn on their skin from touching their hand to a hot surface. What is the deepest layer of tissue affected?

Dermis

100

I am found the most superficial layer of the epidermis. What am I?

Stratum corneum 

100

where in the body would you find simple squamous tissue?

lining of body cavities, lungs, blood vessels. 


100

I am a melanocyte, what do I do?

Give skin it's pigment.

200

How would you describe the function of an endocrine gland?

It deposits substances into the blood stream. 

200

Your patient's skin appears leathery and dark purple with excess fluid escaping. What type of cell death has likely occured?

Necrosis 

200

I allow you to move your body voluntary. What am I?

Skeletal Muscle

200

Where do you find transitional epithelium?

The bladder

200

I am a keratinocyte, what do I do?

Produce keratin in the skin.
300

What is an example of a compound alveolar gland?

Mammary glands
300

Your patient comes in feeling faint after being in the heat. Their skin is red and hot and no sweating is taking place. What homeostasis mechanism is likely not functioning properly?

Thermoregulation 

300

I give your skin its pigment. What am I?

Melanocyte 

300

In what organ would you find stratified squamous epithelium?

the skin

300

I am a Langerhans cell, what do I do?

Immune surveillance in the epidermis

400
What is a structural component of a gland?

Lumen

400

Your patient sees you for treatment of ALS which is classified as a motor neuron disease. What tissue is likely impacted? 

Nervous Tissue

400

I am the body cavity found directly inferior to your thoracic cavity. What am I?

Abdominal cavity

400
I am a stratified columnar tissue. Where am I found?

Sweat gland ducts and mammary gland ducts. 

400

I am a neuroglial cell, what do I do?

Provide support for the nearby neurons. 

500

What type of glands are the salivary glands?

Compound tubular and alveolar.

500

Your patient comes in to get their cast on their leg removed. Their leg feels weaker and they are having difficulty standing on it. What has occured to their muscle tissue?

Muscle Atrophy
500

I am the layer of epidermis found only in the palms and soles of feet. What am I?

Stratum lucidum 

500

i am simple cuboidal tissue. Where would you find me?

In the kidney tubules

500

I am a chondrocyte, what do I do?

Make cartilage