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Question
What is an epithelium? Enumerate the characteristic features of different epithelia.
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Solution
Epithelial tissue is sheet of cells that covers the body surface or lines the body cavity.
- Simple epithelium is single layered.
- Squamous epithelium is made of flattened cells with irregular boundaries.
- Columnar epithelium is made of column like cells with round to oval nuclei at the base.
- Ciliated epithelium has ciilia at the free end.
- Compound epithelium is made of multi-layered cells.
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