Term Name: epithelium
Synonyms:
Definition: Portion of tissue, that consists of one or more layers of epithelial cells connected to each other by cell junctions and which is underlain by a basal lamina.
Appears at: Unknown
Evident until: Adult (90d-730d, breeding adult)
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001486]

Relationships
has parts: epithelial cell goblet cell
is a type of: portion of tissue
has subtype: atypical epithelium cloacal epithelium corneal endothelium corneal epithelium dental epithelium dermomyotome epidermis gut epithelium immature thymic epithelium lens epithelium lip epithelium macula communis mesentery multilaminar epithelium olfactory epithelium olfactory rosette oral epithelium otic epithelium periderm primitive olfactory epithelium regeneration epithelium retinal pigmented epithelium seminiferous epithelium thymic epithelium thymus primordium unilaminar epithelium

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