A layer of epithelium that lines the heart, blood vessels (endothelium, vascular), lymph vessels (endothelium, lymphatic), and the serous cavities of the body[MESH]. Simple squamous epithelium which lines blood and lymphatic vessels and the heart[FMA]. [ FMA:63916 MESH:A10.272.491 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/225 ]
Term information
- CALOHA:TS-0278
- EFO:0002548
- GAID:520
- NCIT:C12481
- SCTID:27168002
- UMLS:C0014257 (ncithesaurus:Endothelium)
- MESH:D004727
- FMA:63916
- galen:Endothelium
- BTO:0000393
uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas
The term 'endothelium' has been either restricted to the continuous cell layer of the vertebrates, as we are assuming here, or applied to all the cells able to adhere to the luminal surface of the vascular basement membrane (Casley-Smith 1980)
Term relations
- simple squamous epithelium
- meso-epithelium
- epithelium
- composed primarily of some endothelial cell
- only in taxon some Vertebrata