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Definition of Epithelial
1. Adjective. Of or belonging to the epithelium. "Epithelial layer"
Definition of Epithelial
1. a. Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer.
Definition of Epithelial
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to the epithelium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epithelial
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Epithelial
1. Pertaining to or composed of epithelium. (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithelial
Literary usage of Epithelial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"-belag ten, m. epithelial rod .en, m. sphere or ball of m leidung, /. or -belag, m.
covering or lining lung, /. formation of m ..."
2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"The Role of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Airway epithelial Gene ...
Furthermore, as the epithelial cells encounter these inhaled substances, ..."
3. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"On examination un epithelial cancer will be found to be composed Fig. 130. Fig.
131. Corpuscle« from epithelial cancer oflower lip. ..."
4. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"This becomes even more apparent in the case of the great group of tumors in which
epithelial cells play the leading part in the constitution of the growth. ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Morphology of epithelial Tissues.—An epithelium is a layer of cells ... With this
is connected the fact that epithelial cells have undergone the least ..."