Definition of Columnar epithelial cell

1. Noun. An epithelial cell that is shaped like a column; some have cilia.

Exact synonyms: Columnar Cell
Generic synonyms: Epithelial Cell
Specialized synonyms: Spongioblast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Columnar Epithelial Cell

column spaces
columna
columna anterior
columna fornicis
columna lateralis
columna posterior
columna vertebralis
columnae anales
columnae carneae
columnae griseae
columnae renales
columnal
columnar
columnar cell
columnar epithelial cell (current term)
columnar epithelium
columnar layer
columnarity
columnated
columnea
columneas
columned
columnella
columniation
columniations
columniferous
columniform
columnist
columnistic

Literary usage of Columnar epithelial cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1879)
"... for the goblet cell is possessed of precisely the same structural attributes as the ordinary columnar epithelial cell from which it is derived, ..."

2. Elements of histology by Edward Klein, John Sydney Edkins (1898)
"... change of an ordinary columnar epithelial cell into a goblet cell the interstitial substance of the cell reticulum swells up and increases in amount, ..."

3. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1876)
"Connective-tissue corpuscles with communicating branches; c. Ciliated columnar epithelial cell», the attached extremities of which ..."

4. Radium Therapy by Frank Edward Simpson (1922)
"The chief effects were the following: In the columnar epithelial cell region the 38 milligram tube acting for two hundred forty minutes produced more ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Examination of this layer microscopically with light from above reveals a sheet of white tufts, each tuft representing a columnar epithelial cell (Fig. 1). ..."

6. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1881)
"It thus appears that a young columnar epithelial cell on its first emerging into distinctive life bears a closer resemblance to a simple leucocyte than to ..."

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