Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun epithelial_cell

1 sense of epithelial cell

Sense 1
epithelial cell -- (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)
       => somatic cell, vegetative cell -- (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes; "somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells";)