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Membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body
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epithelium
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Wikipedia
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Epithelium (epi- + thele + -ium) is one of the four basic types of animal tissue . The other three types are connective tissue , muscle tissue and nervous tissue . Epithelial tissues line the cavities and surfaces of blood vessels and organs throughout ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context anatomy English) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and ...
WordNet
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n. membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body [syn: epithelial tissue ] [also: epithelia (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epithelium \Ep`i*the"li*um\, n.; pl. E. Epitheliums , L. Epithelia . [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + ? nipple.] (Anat.) The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748, Modern Latin (Frederick Ruysch), from Greek epi "upon" (see epi- ) + thele "teat, nipple" (see fecund ). Related: Epithelial .
Usage examples of epithelium.
In a case of Sangster, reported by Politzer, although most of the dermoids, as usual, were like fibroma-nodules and therefore the color of normal skin, those over the mastoid processes and clavicle were lemon-yellow, and were generally thought to be xanthoma until they were excised, and Politzer found they were typical dermoid cysts with the usual contents of degenerated epithelium and hair.
Its two epithelia, the outer and the inner, the ectoderm and the entoderm, proved to be primitive organs out of whose foldings-in and -out, were developed the glands, the tissues, the sensory organs, the body processes.
There should be edema fluid in the alveolar spaces with disproportionate autolytic change of the respiratory epithelium.