neuroepithelialadj.

1889 J. G. M'Kendrick Textbk. Physiol. II. xi. i. 448 In certain medusæ, the transition between a neuro-epithelial cell and a ganglionic or nerve cell may be traced.

1907 G. A. Piersol Human Anat. 1463 The inner lamella [of the retina] may be subdivided..into the neuro-epithelial and the cerebral layers.

1952 R. E. Habel & E. L. Biberstein tr. A. Trautmann & J. Fiebiger Fund. Histol. Domest. Animals iii. 32 The neuroepithelial cells occur in taste buds, the olfactory epithelium, the cristae and maculae staticae, the organ of Corti, and the retina.

1966 C. R. Leeson & T. S. Leeson Histol. xiv. 267/2 The neuroepithelial taste cells are distributed between the supporting cells and number only 4 to 16 in each taste bud.

1974 P. Constantinides Functional Electronic Histol. vi. 81/2 (heading) Neuro-epithelial synapses.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xii. 25/2 In the presence of some defect in cell-mediated immunity, acting at the neuroepithelial junction, a recurrent herpetic lesion will be precipitated.

1903 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 195 302 When examining larvae about to metamorphose, I discovered an exceedingly well-developed plate of neuro-epithelial tissue with a thick bed of fibrils at its base.

1948 R. A. Willis Pathol. Tumours lii. 818 While it is possible that the tumours containing undoubted embryonic neuro-epithelial tissue..were indeed pure embryonic neuro-epithelial growths, this remains uncertain.

1949 B. W. Lichtenstein Textbk. Neuropathol. iv. 47 One generally recognizes two varieties of interstitial tissue in the fully developed nervous system—the neuroglia of neuro-epithelial origin and the microglia or mesenchymal origin.

1971 J. Minckler Pathol. Nerv. Syst. II. clvii. 2111/1 Very primitive tumors occasionally occur in peripheral nerves which are regarded as neuroepithelial.

1994 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 6/8 Dr Shorvon is to publish details of the newly-found lesion—dysembryoplastic neuro-epithelial tumour—in the medical journal Brain.