"Epithelium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... salivary glands by means of the ducts and give rise to infections. The tonsils, particularly in children, provide a favorable surface for infection. The mucous surface extends into these forming deep pockets lined with very thin epithelium, and in these debris of all sorts accumulates and provides material favorable ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... dry. A part may appear coated. In a short time the odor from the mouth is fetid. Following this dry stage of the inflammation is the period of salivation. Saliva dribbles from the mouth, and in severe cases it is mixed with white, stringy shreds of epithelium and tinged with blood. In less acute forms of the disease, we may notice little blisters or vesicles scattered over the lining membrane of the lips, cheeks ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
... on the heifer when it is in the vesicular stage. Such a lesion is broken open and scraped with a Volkmann spoon until the whole of the tissue is forcibly and roughly curetted away, consisting of pus, morbid serum, epithelium, fibrous tissue of the skin, and any foreign matter on or in it, constituting what is called "pulp." This pulp is then passed between glass rollers for trituration and afterwards mixed with a definite amount of glycerine and distilled water. This complex pathologic product of unknown ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... epidermis), the inmost lining of the alimentary canal, the lining of the body cavity, and the inner linings of blood-vessels, glands, and various ducts constitute our first division. The general name for such tissues is epithelium. When the cells are more or less flattened, they form squamous epithelium (Figure VI.) such as we find lining the inside of a man's cheek (from which the cells sq.ep. were taken) or covering the mesentery of various types— sq.end. are from the mesentery (Section ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells |
