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Microscopic anatomy

Nervous Tissue

Cells that carry signals, and the cells that look after them. 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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Nervous Tissue

  • Peripheral Nerve

    Bundles of axons wrapped like a cable, layer within layer.

    3 pages · 10 colours · A4 · Letter

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Neurons And Grey Matter

  • Cerebral Cortex

    The thinking surface of the brain: neurons in a sea of their own connections.

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  • Cerebellar Cortex

    Three layers you can recognise from across the room: pale, one row of giants, a sea of dots.

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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.