epitheliome

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English

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Etymology

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From epithelium +‎ -ome.

Noun

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epitheliome (plural epitheliomes)

  1. (biology) A collection of interacting epithelial cells
    • 2015, Julian A.T. Dow, Shireen A. Davies, “What is an epitheliome, anyway?”, in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, volume 67, →DOI:
      An epitheliome is thus a conceptual grouping of all of the processes, expressed genes or proteins that make up a functional epithelium, and distinguishes each type of epithelia.
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