myo-epithelium love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of tissue, found in the Cælenterata, which partakes at the same time of the characters of epithelial and muscular tissue.
  • noun The epithelium of the mesoblastic somite of the vertebrate embryo: so named because, though epithelial in form, it nevertheless gives rise to muscle.

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