January 27, 2005

Histology=...food?

Dr Kwan, our histology professor, has a cat named Rusty that he shows pictures of, whenever he so chooses. His lectures go something like this:

"This is a pascinian corpuscle, you can tell because it looks like an onion"
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"these eosinophils look like christmas cookies, with little red sugar granules, don't get them confused with the paneth cells of the crypts of Leiberkuhn that look like little cinnamon flavored tic tacs"
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"the villi of the rumen look like french fries"
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"Rusty likes to play with his toys. Sometimes he tries to have sex with them"
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"To know the difference between the cross sections of the villi and the crypts, just think that villi look like kiwi fruits with seeds in the middle and crypts look like strawberries with seeds on the outside"
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"Just think of the cytoplasm as an egg white, the nucleus as the yolk, and then that makes these Nissle bodies sprinkled pepper"
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"Don't you think these plasma cells look like the spooks of a whale?"
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"That is rusty, my son. Rusty Kwan. He is asleep on the chair in this picture. Anyway--"
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"The plasma membrane is like raisin bread with yummy fat raisins or proteins throughout"
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"Axons of nerves in cross section look like cheerios, and you can tell elastic fiber because it looks like lasagna noodles."
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"See these refridgerators? They are filiform papillae of the tongue"

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