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Definition of Ependyma
1. Noun. Thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal.
Definition of Ependyma
1. n. The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.
Definition of Ependyma
1. Noun. (anatomy) A thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord ¹
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Definition of Ependyma
1. a membrane lining certain body cavities [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ependyma
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ependyma
Literary usage of Ependyma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"The ependyma cells maintain in the foetal stage the character of an ... In the
brain, as in the spinal cord, the ependyma cells extend from the inner to the ..."
2. A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology: With an Introductory by Francis Delafield, Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1892)
"In this condition, which may occur by itself, but is usually associated with
inflammation of other parts of the brain, the ependyma is congested, ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"ependyma OF THE VENTRICLES: 350 diameters. A, from the striatum of the lateral
ventricle. 1. viewed on the free surface ; 2, through the thickness; a, ..."
4. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"... comprising the neuroglia and the ependyma: (A) Neuroglia is most abundant in
gray matter. It is made up of richly branched nucleated cells whose ..."
5. A Compend of diagnosis in pathological anatomy: With Directions for Making by Johannes Orth, Reginald Heber Fitz (1878)
"The normal ependyma forms a thin, smooth, colorless, and translucent investment
of the inner walls of the ventricles, but may, pathologically, ..."
6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1900)
"They consisted of a proliferation of the ependyma with an amorphous exudate upon
the surface, swelling of the glia fibres which stained deeply, ..."
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