Term: intestinal epithelium focal adhesion
Name: intestinal epithelium
Synonyms: intestine epithelium, villous epithelium
Definition: Simple columnar epithelium that lines the intestine, sometimes pseudostratified, with absorptive brush-border cells and mucous goblet cells clearly visible.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005124]

Name: focal adhesion
Synonyms: adhesion plaque, connecting hemi-adherens junction, focal contact, HAJ, hemi-adherens junction
Definition: A cell-substrate junction that anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix and that forms a point of termination of actin filaments. In insects focal adhesion has also been referred to as hemi-adherens junction (HAJ).
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0005925]    QuickGO    AmiGO