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Histology is recognising tissues and describing them with the right words. Lumi helps you fix the criteria of each tissue, and the rest comes from looking at slides.

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Make one note per tissue or organ, with its cells, matrix, arrangement and usual stain. Quiz yourself on the features that tell two neighbouring tissues apart. The trap is learning descriptions without ever looking at a real slide, or the other way round. Lumi helps you retain vocabulary, identification criteria and stains.

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Epithelial tissue covers surfaces and lines body cavities. Hematoxylin stains nuclei blue and eosin stains the cytoplasm pink. Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. Skeletal muscle fibers are multinucleated and striated.

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_____ tissue covers surfaces and lines body cavities.

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