The parasympathetic nerves of a developing salivary gland innervate the salivary gland epithelium which is essential for organogenesis.
Source: tatoeba (10957269)
Epithelium
/ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪəm/
Synonyms for "epithelium" (9 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
epithelial tissuecovering tissue
Strong matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(3 words)
gland epitheliumlining tissuesecretory epithelium
Adjective(1 words)
surfacial tissue
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesanimal tissuetissue
More specific
6 entriesglandular epitheliumpseudostratified epitheliumsecretory epitheliumsimple cuboidal epitheliumsimple squamous epitheliumstratified squamous epithelium
Collocations
6 entriesepithelial tissueglandular epitheliumpseudostratified epitheliumsimple cuboidal epitheliumsimple squamous epitheliumstratified squamous epithelium
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Among the preliminary findings: women with dense breasts have a greater proportion of epithelium, that is, tissue composed of cells that line the milk and duct glands.
Source: tatoeba (11473143)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary