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語源

From New Latin epithēlium.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪəm/
• 韻: -iːliəm

名詞

epithelium (countable and uncountable, plural epitheliums or epithelia)

1. (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.

下位語

• endothelium
• urothelium

派生語

関連する語

• thelarche
• thelion
• thelitis
• thelium

参考

• epidermis

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛ.pɪˈtʰeː.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [e.piˈt̪ɛː.li.um]

名詞

epithēlium n (genitive epithēliī); second declension

1. (New Latin, anatomy) epithelium

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

参照

• “epithelium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024.