epithelium

1. 1.

   membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body

   Synonymsepithelial tissue

   Broaderanimal tissue

   Narrowerendotheliummesotheliumneuroepitheliumdecidua

   Partsepithelial cell

Other forms of epithelium

plural

epithelia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epithelium

What does epithelium mean?

epithelium means "membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body".

How many syllables are in epithelium?

epithelium has 4 syllables: ep-i-the-lium. The stress falls on "the". In IPA it is /ˌɛpɪˈθiljəm/.

What is another word for epithelium?

Close synonyms include epithelial tissue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is epithelium a common word?

epithelium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.