columnar

adj
/kəˈlʌm.nəɹ/US

Etymology

From Latin columnāris. By surface analysis, column + -ar.

  1. borrowed from columnāris

Definitions

  1. Having the shape of a column.

  2. Constructed with columns.

  3. Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide…

    Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).

    • where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for columnar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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