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Epithelial

Epithelial \Ep`i*the"li*al\, a. Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.

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epithelial

a. of or pertaining to the epithelium

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epithelial

adj. of or belonging to the epithelium; "epithelial layer"

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Usage examples of "epithelial".

There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell.

I had the ordinary solvents-alcohol, water, d I had a great range of plant pigments to try, turpentine and its distillates-anfrom indigo to rosehips, along with a good working knowledge of their dyeing properties,I hadn't any crystal violet or carbofuchsin, but I had been able to produce a reddish stain that made epithelial cells highly visible, if only temporarily.

I stared at waves of bright red eosinophilic inclusions within infected epithelial cells, or the cytoplasmic Guarnieri bodies indicative of a pox-type virus.

He visualized a corporation that would, for a healthy fee, freeze a little of your epithelial tissue and orbit it high--well above the Van Alien belts, maybe even higher than geosynchronous orbit.

He visualized a corporation that would, for a healthy fee, freeze a little of your epithelial tissue and orbit it high -- well above the Van Alien belts, maybe even higher than geosynchronous orbit.

He was, Ham happened to know, endeavoring to perfect a selective germicidal disinfecting agent which would be effective in epithelial tissue, where a certain type of cancer was its inception.