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squamous epithelium
(redirected from Stratified squamous)

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squamous epithelium [′skwā·məs ‚ep·ə′thē·lē·əm]
(histology)
A single-layered epithelium consisting of thin, flat cells.


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Histopathologic examination of the mass revealed a fibrocollagenous wall that was lined with stratified squamous epithelium.
The mucosa is lined primarily with nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium which gradually becomes transitional cell epithelium near the bladder.
  vacuolization and nuclear abnormalities of cells of the stratified squamous epithelium of the uterine cervix; it may be premalignant.
 
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