ependyma in English
noun
1
the thin membrane of glial cells lining the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord.
These include the respiratory epithelium of the airways (respiratory cilia), the embryonic node (primary cilia), and the ependyma of the brain ventricles (ependymal cilia).
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1. The wall of the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle of brain (rabbit), lined by the Radiatio corporis callosi and the Alveus, is covered with a simple cuboidal ependyma.
2. It develops as a thickening of the ependyma around the pineal recess of the third ventricle and is attached by peduncles to the habenular and posterior Commissures (Kappers, 1981; Korf et al., 1998).