epithelium
/ep-uh-thee-lee-uhm/US // ˌɛp əˈθi li əm //UK // (ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪəm) //
上皮细胞,上皮层,上皮,上皮组织
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural ep·i·the·li·ums, ep·i·the·li·a [ep-uh-thee-lee-uh]. /ˌɛp əˈθi li ə/. Biology.
- : any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
Examples
They always imply desquamation of epithelium, which rarely occurs except in parenchymatous inflammations (Figs. 60 and 61).
The finely granular variety is the least significant, and is found when the epithelium is only moderately affected.
Granular and fatty casts, therefore, always indicate partial or complete disintegration of the renal epithelium.
The surface epithelial cells of a stratified epithelium are also of this type (fig. 4).
It occurs as the covering epithelium of the alveoli of the lung, of the kidney glomerules and capsule, &c.
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