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TYPE
FUNCTION
LOCATION
What are the types of epithelia? What are their functions? Location?
Simple Squamous
• flattened laterally
• sparse cytoplasm
• Endothelium - provides slick, friction-reducing lining
Lymphatic vessels, blood vessels, heart
Serous membranes, ventral body cavity
• Mesothelium - lines ventral body cavity and covers its organs
Simple Cuboidal
• single layer
• as talk as they are wide
• secretion and absorption
Forms the walls of the smallest ducts of glands and many kidney tubules
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