HISTOLOGY VOCABULARY

 Absorption – to suck up
 Acervulus – brain sand; cf psammoma
body
 Acidophilic – affinity for an acidic dye,
such as eosin staining cytoplasmic
proteins
 Acinus – small, rounded terminal
secretory units of compound exocrine
glands that have a lumen
 Acrosome – head of spermatozoan
 Adenoid – in the form of a gland; the pharyngeal
tonsil
 Adipocyte – cells responsible for storage and
metabolism of lipids
 Adluminal – adjacent to the lumen

 Adnexa – accessory parts of a structure

 Adventitia – outermost connective tissue covering

of an organ
 Agranulocyte – A white blood cell without large
number`of cytoplasmic granules but containing
some azurophilic granules
 Albuginea – firm white fibrous tissue near the
surface of the testis or the ovary
 Alcian blue – commercial name for dye indicating
mucins
 Aldehyde fuschin – purple dye for elastin

 Alpha cell – acidophilic cell of the

adenohypophysis; acidophilic cell secreting
glucagon of pancreatic islets of Langerhans