Types of Tissues
Epithelial, Connective, Muscular, and Nervous!
Epithelial Tissue
Epithelial tissue covers the whole body, aka skin. Epithelial tissue consists of closely packed cells and arranged into different layers. Epithelial tissue consists of both simple and stratified forms, branches including simple squamous, simple columner, psuedostratified columner, stratified squamous, stratified cubodial, transitional, and simple cubodial. Epithelial tissues exists in order to: protect, sense, secrete, absorb, excretion, diffusion, and cleaning.
Location
Epithelial tissue is found in the lungs, kidneys, liver, thyroid glands, mammary glands, salivary glands, lining of the stomach, intestines, uterus, gallbladder, nasal cavity, the skin, tongue, bladder, and many other parts of the human body.