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English
Etymology
From New Latin epithēlium.
Pronunciation
Noun
epithelium (countable and uncountable, plural epitheliums or epithelia)
- (anatomy) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.
- Synonym: epithelial tissue
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 25:the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium.
2014 May 30, Victor Kuete, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 505:The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
membranous tissue
- Afrikaans: epiteelweefsel
- Arabic: نَسِيج طِلَائِيّ (nasīj ṭilāʔiyy)
- Basque: epitelio
- Bulgarian: епителна тъкан f (epitelna tǎkan)
- Catalan: epiteli (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 上皮 (zh) (shàngpí)
- Czech: výstelka f, epitel (cs) m, epitelová tkáň
- Danish: epitel
- Dutch: epitheel (nl) n
- Esperanto: epitelio
- Finnish: epiteelikudos
- French: épithélium (fr) m
- German: Epithel n
- Greek: επιθήλιο (el) n (epithílio)
- Hebrew: אפיתל (he)
- Hungarian: hám (hu)
- Ido: epitelio (io)
- Indonesian: jaringan epitel
- Italian: epitelio (it) m, tessuto epiteliale
- Japanese: 上皮組織 (jōhi sosiki), 上皮 (ja) (じょうひ, jōhi), 上皮細胞 (jōhi saibō)
- Kazakh: эпителий (épitelii)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: rûkeşeşane f, şaneya rûkeş f
- Latin: epithelium n, textus epithelialis m
- Low German: epithel
- Malay: epitelium (ms)
- Norwegian: epitel
- Persian: بافت پوششی
- Polish: tkanka nabłonkowa f, tkanka graniczna f, nabłonek (pl) m
- Portuguese: epitélio
- Romanian: țesut epitelial n
- Russian: эпите́лий (ru) m (epitélij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: епително тки̑во
- Roman: epitelsko tkȋvo
- Slovak: epitel (sk)
- Slovene: krovno tkivo
- Spanish: epitelio (es) m
- Swedish: epitel (sv)
- Tajik: (please verify) бофтаи эпителӣ (bofta-yi epiteli)
- Thai: เนื้อเยื่อบุผิว (néua yêua bù pĭw)
- Turkish: epitel (tr)
- Ukrainian: епітелій n (epitelij)
- Urdu: ظہارہ
- Vietnamese: biểu mô
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See also
Latin
Etymology
Introduced by Frederik Ruysch in the 18th century, originally referring to the covering of small "nipples" of tissue on the lip. Initially a first-declension noun epithēlia, from Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-, “on, atop”) + Ancient Greek θηλή (thēlḗ, “nipple”) + -ia; the nominative singular was later reinterpreted as a second-declension neuter plural.
Pronunciation
Noun
epithēlium n (genitive epithēliī); second declension
- (New Latin, anatomy) epithelium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- ^ Foster, Michael (1874) “On the Term Endothelium”, in Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, volumes s2-14, number 55, →DOI, pages 219–223
- ^
MacCord, Kate (2012) “Epithelium”, in Embryo Project Encyclopedia, →ISSN