Epithelium Definition

ĕpə-thēlē-əm
epitheliums
noun
epitheliums
Cellular tissue covering external body surfaces, as the epidermis, or lining internal surfaces, as hollow organs, vessels, etc.: it consists of one or more layers of cells with little intercellular material.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • epithelial tissue

Other Word Forms of Epithelium

Noun

Singular:
epithelium
Plural:
epithelia, epitheliums

Origin of Epithelium

  • Modern Latin epithēlium, from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epi, “on, atop, epi-”) + θηλή (thēlē, “nipple”).

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin epithēlium epi– Greek thēlē nipple dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Epithelium Sentence Examples

  • Each bud arises as a thickening of the epithelium, which.

  • The statocysts present in general the structure of either a knob or a closed vesicle, composed of (I) indifferent supporting epithelium; (2) sensory, so-called auditory epithelium of slender cells, each.

  • Thus the gonads are covered over by at least four layers of epithelium, and since these are unnecessary, presenting merely obstacles to the dehiscence of the gonads, they gradually undergo reduction.

  • It is seen from the foregoing account of medusa - budding that the entocodon is a very important constituent of the bud, furnishing some of the most essential portions of the medusa; its cavity becomes the subumbral cavity, and its lining furnishes the ectodermal epithelium of the manubrium and of the sub-umbral cavity as far as the edge of the velum.

  • From these facts,, and from those of the sporogony, to be described below, we may regard budding to this type as taking place from the germinal epithelium rather than from ordinary ectoderm.

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Words Starting With

EEPEPI

Words Ending With

MUMIUM

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Words Starting With E and Ending With M

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