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  • noun Plural form of endothelium.

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Examples

  • Langub, MC, et al. Estrogen receptor immunoreactive glia, endothelia and ependyma in guinea pig preoptic area and median eminence: electron microscopy.

    T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details T.S. Wiley 2010

  • It is said that 'the cells which are known to possess phagocytocic properties are the leucocytes, mucous corpuscles, connective tissue cells, endothelia of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, alveolar eypithelium of the lungs, and the cells of the spleen, bone, marrow and lymphatic glands.'

    Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890

  • The thin wall of these first vessels of the amniote embryo consists of flat cells (endothelia or vascular epithelia); the fluid within already contains numbers of red blood-cells; both have been developed from the gut-fibre layer.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes to endothelia and endothelial cell activation have been proposed as mechanism of clinical severe malaria.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes to endothelia and endothelial cell activation have been proposed as mechanism of clinical severe malaria.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes to endothelia and endothelial cell activation have been proposed as mechanism of clinical severe malaria.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • EC migration is a crucial step in angiogenesis and is essential for regeneration of endothelia damaged by balloon catheter angioplasty and stent placement.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tania Maffucci et al. 2009

  • In addition, the presence of fenestrated endothelia in the glomerular capillaries selectively allows molecules to pass through in relation to their size, shape and charge.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It is simply in the mode of the grouping of these elements that we have the variation in tissues, as (1) loose connective tissue, (2) aponeurosis and tendons, (3) muscles, (4) cartilage, (5) bones, (6) epithelia and endothelia, (7) nerves.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Furthermore, expression of transgenic PPARβ/δ was epidermis-specific and was not detectable in dermal fibroblasts, endothelia, skin - associated T cells, or any other organ screened, including intestine, muscle, liver, spleen (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Malgorzata Romanowska et al. 2010

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