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Definition of Epithelial tissue

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

Medical Definition of Epithelial tissue

1. See: epithelium. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithelial Tissue

Literary usage of Epithelial tissue

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

1. A Manual of Normal Histology and Organography by Charles Hill (1917)
"There are four kinds of elementary tissues,— (i) epithelial tissue; ... I. epithelial tissue. Epithelium lines surfaces, external and internal, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the serous membranes the lymph- vessels are very abundant in the sub-epithelial tissue, where they form a layer parallel to the free surface of the ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"In the milder forms we find the sub-epithelial tissue impregnated with a more or less dense infiltration, consisting of mononuclear or epi- ..."

4. Bioplasm: An Introduction to the Study of Physiology & Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1872)
"Different kinds of epithelial tissue.—The student would scarcely believe that the soft, moist epithelium of a mucous membrane ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"For Rindfleisch thus, as for Waldeyer, all cancers are of epithelial nature and origin, and grow after the manner of ordinary epithelial tissue, ..."

6. Anatomy and Histology of the Mouth and Teeth by Isaac Norman Broomell, Philipp Fischelis (1917)
"CHAPTER II Elementary Tissues: epithelial tissue, Connective Tissue, Muscular Tissue, Nervous Tissue, Blood and Lymph. The differentiation of the three ..."

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