Human body tissues

One of the most difficult sessions of human anatomy lab for beginning students is tissue anatomy. That is, learning to identify human body tissues under the microscope or by studying photomicrographs.

First, just finding the tissue in the viewer of the microscope is a challenge.

Would it not be nice to have your own personal pathologist to explain what you are supposed to be seeing?

Well, this is available on YouTube from a pathologist branding himself Shotgun Pathology. Dr. John Minarcik has produced over 800 short videos describing human tissue in detail. Below are links to those of his videos that I think will be most helpful to human anatomy students.

There are too many videos for me to embed them all in this page. But here is an example of what his videos are like. This is Dr. Minarcik’s discussion of a neurovascular bundle.

It is sometimes missed when studying muscles, nerves, arteries and veins separately that the nerves and vasculature course through muscle together as vascular bundles.

 

 

I stumbled upon Dr. Minarcik’s material as I was searching YouTube for videos on human tissue histology. Some years ago, when I worked in academic medicine and I needed to understand tissue histology, I always talked a pathologist into spending a little time with me at the double headed microscope.

Do not miss this opportunity to review human tissue histology with Dr. Minarcik before you study human body tissues under the microscope or in photomicrographs yourself.

* Elastic Cartilage [1:59 minutes]

* Hyaline Cartilage [4:26 minutes]

* Fibrocartilage [1:59 minutes]

* Dense Regular Connective tissue [2:22 minutes]

* Areolar Connective Tissue [5:45 minutes]

* Adipose Tissue [3:15 minutes]

* Spongy Bone [4:06 minutes]

* Dense Bone [6:11 minutes]

* Bone Marrow [2.38 minutes]

* Three Muscle Types [6:20 minutes]

* Heart Endo-, Peri-, Epicardium [2:29]

* Heart Purkinje Fibers [1:39 minutes]

* Nerve Fiber [2:49 minutes]

* Thin Skin [9:58 minutes]

* Lung [6:55 minutes]

* Trachea [5:11 minutes]

* Kidney [9:01 minutes]

* Liver [6:43 minutes]

Further reading

Memory, Patterns and Themes in Anatomy and Physiology

Anatomy Lab Tests

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Margaret Thompson Reece PhD, physiologist, former Senior Scientist and Laboratory Director at academic medical centers in California, New York and Massachusetts is now Manager at Reece Biomedical Consulting LLC.

She taught physiology for over 30 years to undergraduate and graduate students, at two- and four-year colleges, in the classroom and in the research laboratory. Her books “Physiology: Custom-Designed Chemistry”, “Inside the Closed World of the Brain”, and her online course “30-Day Challenge: Craft Your Plan for Learning Physiology”, and “Busy Student’s Anatomy & Physiology Study Journal” are created for those planning a career in healthcare. More about her books is available at https://www.amazon.com/author/margaretreece. You may contact Dr. Reece at DrReece@MedicalScienceNavigator.com, or on LinkedIn

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