EPITHELIUM (epithelia)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: epithelia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does epithelium mean? 

• EPITHELIUM (noun)
  The noun EPITHELIUM has 1 sense:

1. membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body

  Familiarity information: EPITHELIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPITHELIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

epithelial tissue; epithelium

Hypernyms ("epithelium" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Meronyms (parts of "epithelium"):

epithelial cell (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epithelium"):

endothelium (an epithelium of mesoblastic origin; a thin layer of flattened cells that lines the inside of some body cavities)

mesothelium (epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity)

neuroepithelium (epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings)

decidua (the epithelial tissue of the endometrium)

Derivation:

epithelial (of or belonging to the epithelium)

 Context examples 

Immunoglobulin A secretion by mucosal epithelia in the gastrointestinal, respiratory, and genitourinary tracts.

(Mucosal Immunity, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic lesion characterized by the proliferation of keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear that results in the accumulation of keratin and cells.

(Middle Ear Cholesteatoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene have been associated with disruption of the retinal pigment epithelium phagocytosis pathway and onset of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa.

(MERTK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of clusters of capillaries projecting into a dysplastic bronchial epithelium.

(Angiogenic Squamous Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Entamoeba histolytica, an extracellular protozoan parasite, is a human pathogen that invades the intestinal epithelium.

(Amoebiasis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Anchoring junctions typically are observed as "spot welds" between cells in many types of epithelia.

(Anchoring Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

It is comprised of the epithelium, basement membrane, lamina propria mucosae, and lamina muscularis mucosae.

(Mucosa of the Lip, NCI Thesaurus)

A mucinous adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells which resemble the endocervical epithelium.

(Mucinous Adenocarcinoma, Endocervical Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A murine IgG2a monoclonal antibody directed against a 48 kDa antigen expressed on the cell surface of normal and malignant gastrointestinal epithelium.

(Monoclonal Antibody D6.12, NCI Thesaurus)

Cuboidal to columnar epithelium with prominent rounded nuclei.

(Mouse Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)