epitheliome

English

Etymology

From epithelium +‎ -ome.

Noun

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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