EPITHELIAL CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epithelial cell mean? 

• EPITHELIAL CELL (noun)
  The noun EPITHELIAL CELL has 1 sense:

1. one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium

  Familiarity information: EPITHELIAL CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPITHELIAL CELL (noun)

Meaning:

One of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("epithelial cell" is a kind of...):

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epithelial cell"):

columnar cell; columnar epithelial cell (an epithelial cell that is shaped like a column; some have cilia)

cuboidal cell; cuboidal epithelial cell (an epithelial cell that shaped like a cube)

goblet cell (an epithelial cell that secretes mucous)

hair cell (a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti)

squamous cell (an epithelial cell that is flat like a plate and form a single layer of epithelial tissue)

gustatory cell; taste cell (an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve)

Holonyms ("epithelial cell" is a part of...):

epithelial tissue; epithelium (membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body)