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EPITHELIAL, ENDOTHELIAL and GLANDULAR TISSUES, in anatomy. Every surface of the body which may come into ^^^ contact with foreign substances is covered with a ium'. ' protecting layer of cells closely bound to one another to form continuous sheets. These are e ...

... ity and terminating internally in a long muscular fibre. Such cells, made up of epithelial and muscular components, are known as epithelio-muscular or myo-epithelial cells. In Actinians the epithelio-muscular cells of the endoderm are crowded with yellow spher ...

... surfaces of the special sense organs, the glands, and the hairs, nails, &c. The epithelial cells possess typical microscopical characters which enable them to be readily distinguished from all others. Thus the cell outline is clearly marked, the nucleus large ...

... hip nd sometimes according to their subject, but neither division EPITHALAMIUM— EPITHELIAL TISSUES b so interesting as that which arranges them according to their characteristic features. What has just been said of English epitaphs is, of course, more true of ...