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2.2: Keywords

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    Please familiarize yourself with these keywords before you start reading the chapter:

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    Apical
    The surface of a cell that faces a lumen or an outside area.
    Basolateral
    The surfaces of a cell that faces away from a lumen or outside area.
    Cilia
    A organelle and cell modification that manifests as a membrane projection capable of movement.
    Cornification
    A layer of dead cells filled with keratin that form a protective barrier over a layer of cells. Seen with stratified squamous epithelium.
    Desmosomes
    A cell modification that is responsible a cell to cell adhesion resistant to shearing forces to the epithelial layer.
    Endothelium
    A type of simple squamous epithelium that lines in inside of vascular structures.
    Epithelium
    A basic tissue type that typically lines a surface (cavity, lumen or outside surface) or forms glands. plural, epithelia; adjective, epithelial
    Hemidesmosomes
    A cell modification that is responsible for the adhesion of a cell to extracellular matrix.
    Keratin
    A structural protein and intermediate filament that provides a tough protective quality to some epithelial cell types. Seen with cornified or keratinized epithelium.
    Microvilli
    A cell modification that manifests as a membrane projection and increases the surface area of a cell.
    Pseudostratified
    A type of columnar epithelium in which the nuclei are arranged in different levels in the cell layer.
    Simple
    An unilayered arrangement of epithelial cells.
    Stratified
    A multilayered arrangement of epithelial cells.
    Tight junctions
    A cell modification that is responsible for cell to cell adhesion.
    Urothelium
    A unique type of stratified epithelium capable of stretching that lines a majority of the urinary tract.

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