epithelium of esophagus

The epithelial layer that lines the luminal space of the esophagus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the epithelium of esophagus is

The epithelial layer that lines the luminal space of the esophagus. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the epithelium of esophagus is

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the epithelium of esophagus connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of digestive tract, esophagus and esophagus mucosa, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the epithelium of esophagus. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as epithelial tissue of esophagus, epithelial tissue of gullet, epithelial tissue of oesophagus, epithelium of gullet, epithelium of oesophagus and esophageal epithelium, and 6 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001976, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive tract, esophagus, esophagus mucosa and mucosa.
• A kind of: epithelium.
• contributes to morphology of: esophagus.

Questions

Where is the epithelium of esophagus?

It sits within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the epithelium of esophagus connect to?

Part of: digestive tract, esophagus, esophagus mucosa and mucosa.

Is the epithelium of esophagus the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.