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Microscopic anatomy

Muscle Tissue

Cells built to shorten. Each sheet shows the tissue three times, from the layers to the one feature that gives it away, with a real slide in the corner and the answers on the next page.

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Muscle Tissue

  • Skeletal Muscle

    Long fibres with many nuclei at the edge and stripes across: the muscle you move on purpose.

    3 pages · 10 colours · A4 · Letter

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  • Cardiac Muscle

    Branching striped cells joined end to end, beating together for a lifetime.

    3 pages · 10 colours · A4 · Letter

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  • Smooth Muscle

    Spindle cells with no stripes: the slow, tireless muscle of organs and vessels.

    3 pages · 10 colours · A4 · Letter

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    A4 0.9 MB Letter 0.9 MB

Drawn slides generated by WalexLabs (Disseco) from published cell sizes. Real slides: GTEx via NCI Imaging Data Commons (CC BY 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC BY / public domain), credited on every sheet.