WordNet
n. membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body [syn: epithelium]
Usage examples of "epithelial tissue".
There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell.
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.