loading...| Preferred Name | pseudostratified columnar epithelium | |
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A simple columnar epithelium that looks stratified but is not, because its cells are arranged with their nuclei at different levels. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0010498 |
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UMLS:C1514590 Wikipedia:Pseudostratified_columnar_epithelium NCIT:C49316 UMLS:C0836138 NCIT:C33419 FMA:45572 |
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| definition |
A simple columnar epithelium that looks stratified but is not, because its cells are arranged with their nuclei at different levels. |
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uberon |
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UBERON:0010498 |
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pseudostratified columnar epithelium |
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UBERON:0010498 |
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pseudostratified columnar epithelium |
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Pseudostratified epithelia function in secretion or absorption. If a specimen looks stratified but has cilia, then it is a pseudostratified ciliated epithelium, since stratified epithelia do not have cilia. |
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| UBPROP_0000012 |
glandular in NCIT; we consider the two NCIT terms synonymous |
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