Epithelium

The term "epithelium" refers to cells that line hollow organs and glands, and which make up the outer surface of the body. Epithelial cells help to protect or enclose organs. Some produce mucus or other secretions.
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EPITHELIUM: The covering of the internal and external organs of the body. Also the lining of vessels, body cavities, glands, and organs.
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Epithelium: The cornea's outermost region, comprising about 10 percent of the tissue's thickness.
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Both external-beam radiation and implants damage the vaginal epithelium and basal layer of the mucosa, leading to vaginal stenosis and vascular fibrosis.
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Instead of creating a flap in the cornea, the surgeon creates a flap only in the cornea's thin protective cover (epithelium).
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CIN 2 - Moderate dysplasia - Cell changes in the bottom third to two-thirds of the epithelium.
4. CIN 3 - (a) Severe dysplasia - Cell changes in a minimum of two thirds of the epithelium but not the whole layer.
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Once the two layers of the retina, the sensory retina and the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), lose contact with each other, the retina stops working properly because the eye cannot process what it sees.
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This is a tumor that develops from the squamous cells which are flat, scalelike cells in the outer layer of the skin (the epithelium).
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Both arise from epithelial tissue (see epithelium). They are rare in dark-skinned people; light-skinned, blue-eyed people who do not tan well but who have had significant exposure to the rays of the sun are at highest risk.
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Konan Noncon Robo Pachy Specular microscope, camera, and optical pachymeter for examination of the corneal epithelium and capable of measuring corneal thickness; ...
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Epithelial tumors: These tumors arise from a layer of cells that surrounds the outside of the ovary called the germinal epithelium. About 70-80% of all ovarian cancers are epithelial.
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Cysts - Any fluid-filled closed cavity or sac that is lined by an EPITHELIUM. Cysts can be of normal, abnormal, non-neoplastic, or neoplastic tissues.
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Stage 0 cancer is confined to the superficial layer. This includes dysplasia and carcinoma in situ, a cancer confined to the cervix epithelium.
Stage I cancer is confined to the cervix.
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Figure 1.31. Pseudocyst/oral lymphoepithelial cyst of the palatine tonsil, left. Scraping this does not remove the yellow lesion which is covered by epithelium. This lesion spontaneously disappeared in about 4 months, right.
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The skin or epithelium, in medical terms of the cervix can develop a type of cancer that has no physical symptoms until it has spread to involve other parts of the reproductive tract or spread to distant parts of the body.
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layer of the eye, that consists of four major layers: the outer neural layer, containing nerve cells and blood vessels, the photoreceptor layer, a single layer that contains the light sensing rods and cones, the pigmented retinal epithelium (PRE) and ...
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Thus far, we have cloned a gene specific for the bronchial epithelium, and are analyzing additional candidates. Our goal is to use such cell type-specific genes to buiTd mouse models of various human lung cancers.
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