They are prolongations of the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes.

A majority of bacteria reside on superficial cells on the skin or prefer to associate with glands.

Classically, with a cervical smear, infected women have a transparent "halo" around their superficial cell nucleus.

The injection of a suitable label into embryonic cavities can be used to mark superficial cells lining the cavity and to follow their ingression.

The once superficial cells of the animal pole are destined to become the cells of the middle germ layer called the mesoderm.

Superficial cells are orange to pink, and intermediate and parabasal cells are turquoise green to blue.

When the bladder is fully distended the superficial cells become squamous (flat) and the stratification of the cuboidal is reduced in order to provide lateral stretching.

"That's because the humidity in the atmosphere kept the naturally produced oils on the skin and the superficial cells soft and adherent so that oils were not lost."

Introduction Epithelial apoptosis in the gastro-intestinal tract is normally restricted to superficial cells but in pathological states of inflammation or infection, apoptotic cell death can be far more expansive.

Nuclear staining was found in lower superficial cells (red arrowhead in adjacent panel), and cornified superficial cells showed overall diminution of LHR immunoreactivity (white arrowhead).