Types of Epithelium. Stratified and Simple epithelium

There are three principal shapes of epithelial cell: squamous, columnar, and cuboidal. These can be arranged in a single layer of cells as simple epithelium, either squamous, columnar, or cuboidal, or in layers of two or more cells deep as stratified layered, or compound, either squamous, columnar or cuboidal.

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