Epithelium vs Podocyte - What's the difference?
epithelium | podocyte |
(anatomy) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 25:
As nouns the difference between epithelium and podocyte
is that epithelium is epithelium while podocyte is (biology) a cell of the visceral epithelium in the kidney.epithelium
English
(wikipedia epithelium)Noun
(en-noun)- the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium .