Three primary cell shapes exist: squamous (flat), cuboidal, and columnar. From Wordnik.com. [Tissues] Reference
It is lined by an epithelium which here consists of a single layer of columnar or cuboidal cells with large nuclei. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
It's hard to tell from down here, but the central cuboidal opening looks to be at least half a kilometer on a side, and they might very well be posthumans with low-gee wings -- angels. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. From Wordnik.com. [Revelation, Redemption and Absolution] Reference
The mesothelium consists of a single layer of flattened to cuboidal cells forming the epithelial lining of the serous cavities of the body including the peritoneal, pericardial and pleural cavities. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
The epithelium of this region of the enteron consists of a single layer of fairly regular cells, which are columnar in the dorsal region, just beneath the mesentery, and cuboidal or even flattened in regions more distant from the median plane. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
The outline of the enteron is here almost a vertical slit, and the lining entoderm consists, in its dorsal and lateral regions, of a single layer of columnar epithelium, while in its ventral region, where it adjoins the liver trabeculae, it is made up of several layers of cuboidal or irregular cells. From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
There are many types of cells in the body and they have been classified in several ways. basic structure (for example, cuboidal cells); tissue type (for example, hepatocytes of the liver); germinal cells (for example, ova and sperm); and somatic cells (for example, non-reproductive cells of the body). From Wordnik.com. [Toxicology] Reference
The epithelium of the oesophagus is the same here as in the more anterior regions described above; that of the lung rudiments is very variable in thickness, even in different parts of the same section, being in some places composed of a single layer of cuboidal or even flattened cells, in other places consisting of four or five layers of cells (not well shown in the figure). From Wordnik.com. [Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator] Reference
A cuboidal cell type predominantly forms the adenomas. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Its outer surface is covered with a layer of low cuboidal mesothelium. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4g. The Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis] Reference
The epidermal cells are cuboidal and the nuclei are lie in the middle of the cell. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Simple cuboidal epithelium is found in glandular tissue and in the kidney tubules. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Additionally, osteoblasts of KO mice were healthy, plump, cuboidal cells of normal morphology. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Epidermal cells of hau mutant larvae are cuboidal and their lateral membranes are straight (E). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Their epidermal cells (bracket) are cuboidal (B) or round and may lose contact to their neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
No bronchial epithelial hyperplasia continuous with cuboidal tumors as described for oncogenic K-Ras models. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Epithelial cells may be squamous, cuboidal, or columnar in shape and may be arranged in single or multiple layers. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Three porogens were used: salt crystals permeability for the NaCl having cuboidal structure, a Y shape, and a Star Bed of Y-Shape 1. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It is irregularly cuboidal in form, having its long axis directed forward and lateralward; it presents for examination six surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6d. The Foot. 1. The Tarsus] Reference
The lateral process of the palatine bone is missing, each one of the maxilla has one enlarged maxillary tooth and is cuboidal in shape. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The cuboidal GMMe cells, which exhibit epithelial characteristics, are strongly positive for cytokeratin and weakly positive for vimentin. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The inner surface and the trabeculæ are likewise covered by a somewhat low type of cuboidal mesothelium which in places are flattened to a pavement type. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4g. The Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis] Reference
Cells within the endoderm layers of the early embryo exist in simple cuboidal or squamous epithelia, making them difficult to isolate mechanically from embryos. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The inner surface of the dura is covered by flattened polygonal mesothelial cells but the outer surface of the arachnoid is covered by somewhat cuboidal mesothelium. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4h. The Cerebrospinal Fluid] Reference
Col1a1-Krm2 transgenic littermates revealing that the normal appearance of cuboidal osteoblasts (arrows) covering trabecular bone surfaces is only observed in wildtype controls. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
D alated to commercial ice machines from fireroom practicably his leicestershire that the cuboidal fortunella is to centralised the zigadene and middling poultry flashily unoriginal. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
These ragged, angular, and mostly cuboidal blocks, resembling the ice-pack of St. Lawrence River, have apparently been borne down by subsequent lava-currents, which, however, lacked impetus to reach the lower levels of Las Cañádas. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Epithelium changes First, pseudostratified ciliated columnar Replaced by simple columnar, then simple cuboidal epithelium Smooth muscle becomes important Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The Base or Carpal Extremity (basis) is of a cuboidal form, and broader behind than in front: it articulates with the carpus, and with the adjoining metacarpal bones; its dorsal and volar surfaces are rough, for the attachment of ligaments. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6b. 2. The Metacarpus] Reference
The principal cavity is cuboidal in form, and concealed, in front, by the pulmonary artery and aorta; in front and to the right it is separated from the right atrium by the atrial septum; opening into it on either side are the two pulmonary veins. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart] Reference
The rate of bronchiolar cell proliferation was decreased and associated with the formation of an undifferentiated, cuboidal-squamous epithelium lacking the expression of markers of Clara cells (Scgb1a1), ciliated cells (FoxJ1 and α-tubulin), and goblet cells (Spdef and Muc5AC). From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
The gho or hau larval epidermal cells are cuboidal and their lateral membrane does not meander (. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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