| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| endothelium |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | en·do·the·li·um |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n d -th  l- m |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. en·do·the·li·a (-l-)
A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin endothlium : endo– + Greek thl, nipple; see dh(i)- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | endo·theli·al, endo·theli·oid —ADJECTIVE
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
