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esophageal mucosa Welcome to Histology at SIU

This website summarizes the basics of tissue organization in the human body, in extensively hyper-linked notes and images.  

About this resource (pdf)

This website is maintained by David G. King, currently Associate Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, based on 35 years' experience teaching introductory histology.

Dedication:  Textbooks and websites (including this one) commonly present information ex cathedra, without historical context, as if it had always existed.  But our knowledge of tissues has emerged incrementally over hundreds of years.  This website is dedicated to all the researchers, technicians, artists, and teachers who have invented protocols, observed specimens, published discoveries, and shared their understanding.  A few of their contributions are acknowledged in this website on the eponyms and historical notes page.

Using this histology resource

  • Throughout this website, most thumbnail images are links to larger, labelled images with additional notes.  (To browse all images, see the image index.)
  • Accessibility:  "Alternative text" for images (i.e., text displayed in place of images) is seldom provided.  Most images in this website are micrographs illustrating the accompanying text.  That text can be read without regard to the images, except to note that most small "thumbnail" images are themselves links to pages with enlarged images, whose accompanying text in turn describes details within those enlargments.  "Alternative text" could do little more than duplicate that accompanying text.

    Questions, comments, or error notes are welcome, sent to the email address at the bottom of each page

    Contents Image Index

    Von Ebner's 1873 drawing of eponymous tissues in the tongue.

    tissues skin inflammation blood
    blood vessels lung kidney kidney
    neuron eye muscle bone
    ovary testis stomach liver
           
           
    print resources  /  access to literature  /  Image Index
     

    A few external resources

           
       
    SEARCH THE SITE:

    Google
    WWW histology.siu.edu

    Portrait of web-page author David King (60 years old in this 2008 picture), with short, pale-gray hair and beard, wearing wire-frame eyeglasses, white shirt, and tie. Questions, comments, or error notes: dgking@siu.edu

    SIUC / School of Medicine / Anatomy / David King

    https://histology.siu.edu/index.htm
    Last updated:  21 January 2024