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What Are the Cuboidal Epithelium?

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What Are the Cuboidal Epithelium?

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Cuboidal epithelium is a type of tissue in animal anatomy. It is a very important type of tissue in the human body. Cuboidal epithelia are found inside the kidneys, in parts of the eye and the thyroid, in the ovaries and testes, in parts of the brain and lungs, and in the ducts of exocrine glands. Cuboidal epithelium is only one type of epithelial tissue in the body. Epithelium is a tissue that lines surfaces and cavities throughout the body, and cuboidal epithelium is so named because the cells of the tissue have roughly equal height, width, and depth, though they may not be exactly cube-shaped. Each cell has a spherical nucleus in its center. Other types of epithelium are either disc-shaped, with cell width exceeding cell height, or column-shaped, with the height of cells exceeding their width. Cuboidal epithelium may be simple, consisting of only one layer of cells, or stratified, consisting of multiple layers.

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