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Definition of Epithelial cell
1. Noun. One of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium.
Specialized synonyms: Columnar Cell, Columnar Epithelial Cell, Cuboidal Cell, Cuboidal Epithelial Cell, Goblet Cell, Hair Cell, Squamous Cell, Gustatory Cell, Taste Cell
Generic synonyms: Somatic Cell, Vegetative Cell
Medical Definition of Epithelial cell
1. One of the many varieties of cell's that form epithelium. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithelial Cell
Literary usage of Epithelial cell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"One view is that the parasite conjugates with the epithelial cell which it enters
in a manner somewhat resembling the conjugation of sperm cell and germ ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"It is remarkable that in other cases a similar series of changes may be provoked
in the epithelial cell after the Fio. 10. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"But a single epithelial cell may also become transformed into a multinuclear
giant cell: one or the other epithelial cell increases rapidly in size ..."
4. The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body, in Health and Disease by Arthur Hill Hassall, Henry Vanarsdale (1852)
"Each epithelial cell is first detected as a nucleus without any appearance of
cell wall around it: this however may exist closely embracing the nucleus, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"The epithelial cell layer is made up of from 4 to 7 or 8 cells and there is marked
desquamation of cells. The epithelial cells of this region show a very ..."
6. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"Western blot analyses using a monoclonal anti-iNOS antibody demonstrated a protein
band in airway epithelial cell lysates from normal volunteers that was ..."
7. The Medical Times and Gazette (1866)
"... or in the epithelium of the hair tubes, it consists in no error of oxidation,
but in an entire change in the chemical growth of an epithelial cell. ..."
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