EPITHELIAL TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epithelial tissue mean? 

• EPITHELIAL TISSUE (noun)
  The noun EPITHELIAL TISSUE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EPITHELIAL TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPITHELIAL TISSUE (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 ("epithelial tissue" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Meronyms (parts of "epithelial tissue"):

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

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

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)

 Context examples 

A mature T lymphocyte that migrates into epithelial tissue and contributes to the local and the systemic immune response.

(Intraepithelial T-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the replacement of epithelial tissue outside the intestines by intestinal-type epithelium.

(Intestinal Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Neoplasms composed of fibrous and epithelial tissue.

(Fibroepithelial Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A term that refers to the cells that make up the epithelial tissues.

(Epithelial, NCI Thesaurus)

Intestinal enterocytes are low columnar to cuboidal cells comprising the majority of the epithelial tissue in the intestine and colon.

(Large Intestinal Glandular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A overgrowth of epithelial tissue in the respiratory tree.

(Lung Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

MUC-1 synthesis and secretion are features of glandular epithelial tissues; MUC-1 is overexpressed in lactating breast and in breast, ovary, lung, and prostate malignancies.

(MUC-1 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

A hepatoblastoma characterized by the presence of mixed epithelial and mesenchymal components and additional tissues such as striated muscle, bone, epithelial tissues, and melanin pigment.

(Mixed Hepatoblastoma with Teratoid Features, NCI Thesaurus)

A biologic subset of breast carcinoma with a unique molecular signature or expression profile, defined by high expression of many genes expressed by adipose and other non-epithelial tissues.

(Normal Breast-Like Subtype of Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes euromedin-B receptor protein, plays a role in mitogenesis for lung and gastrointestinal epithelial tissue.

(NMBR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)