pseudostratified epithelium

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Introduction

Epithelium that gives the appearance of stratified epithelium, because the cell nuclei are at different levels, but in which all cells reach the basement membrane. Thus pseudostratified epithelium is classified as simple epithelium.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.