Hi everyone, I'm in A&P right now and we have our first lab practical coming up, and it's on histology.
We have to distinguish between simple squamous epithelial, stratified cuboidal, etc. and the pictures in my book and on the PP look different but when I look under the microscope all the slides look the exact same to me
Can anyone give me some tips that they used? I feel like I will fail this practical miserably and I'm feeling frustrated
Memorization is easy to me but these microscope slides just look identical.
You can see them close up under the microscope, which helps. The last link also has "Lab Practical" links that you can click on that quiz you. The first link has close up images under the microscope and labels things you can look for. The middle link has where you can zoom in or out on the images under the microscope.
This may be totally off base - but between the first post and now I had to go get contacts... it has made a HUGE difference in how I am able to view slides. I'm a little bit older and I knew I needed reading glasses. Going between the board and my book was just horrible, so I went and got contacts. BUT - it made an immediate difference in how I could see. I would take my glasses off before looking into the microscope (because I really only needed them for reading - or so I thought). What I found is that my eyes weren't focusing properly. Hard to explain but contacts fixed it - reading glasses may have fixed it if I would have actually left them on to look through the scope. I really thought I just couldn't figure out how to focus but it turns out my eyes were actually the problem. I don't have much of a prescription either - but for me it really made a difference. Now I realize that I DID know how to focus the scope :)
Lavender111
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Thank you so much for the amazing links, you're awesome :)