epitheliome
English
Noun
epitheliome (plural epitheliomes)
- (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.