Aims

1. To acquire the scientific and medical vocabulary used in morphological sciences and to know the definition of words used.
2. To know the definition of tissues constituting the human body and their principal localisation.
3. To know the cytological, histological and sometimes macroscopic characteristics of tissues, in other words, the criterias to recognize and to describe them.
4. To know histophysiological elements : the roles and functioning of the tissues.
5. To know how to analyze a morphological document (optical or electronic micrography, macroscopic photography, histological preparation). This implies to be capable of examining the document in its integrity and to find the different tissue constituents, describing them by giving the form, size, tinctorial affinity, their mode of association, etc… and to bring out the important tone.
6. To outline the observation data by elaborating one or several hypothesis of diagnostic.

Main themes

The biological and medical sciences are based on three fundamental disciplines :
- BIOCHEMISTRY that studies the molecules composing the organism and the many chemical reactions that take place
- MORPHOLOGY that studies the structures formed by assembling molecules,
- PHYSIOLOGY that studies the functioning of different structures composing the organism.
Cytology studies the constituents of the cell. The objectives of this course are to make students able to make links between morphology and the main functions of the cell as well as between cellular ultrastructure and the aspects of cells in optical microscopy. On the same title as cytology and anatomy, histology is a branch of morphology; it is divided in general histology and special histology. General histology is the study of tissues, associations of cells of the same type and sometimes extracellular components forming elementary constituents of organs. Special histology, also called microscopic anatomy, is seen later on. It studies the architecture of organs formed by a series of tissues.

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