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endothelium

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001986

A layer of epithelium that lines the heart, blood vessels (endothelium, vascular), lymph vessels (endothelium, lymphatic), and the serous cavities of the body[MESH]. Simple squamous epithelium which lines blood and lymphatic vessels and the heart[FMA]. [ http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/A10.272.491 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/225 ]

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endothelium

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Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas

RO 0002175

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

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The term 'endothelium' has been either restricted to the continuous cell layer of the vertebrates, as we are assuming here, or applied to all the cells able to adhere to the luminal surface of the vascular basement membrane (Casley-Smith 1980)

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uberon

has relational adjective

endothelial

UBERON:0001986

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epithelium