intestinal epithelium

Epithelial layer that lines the intestine. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the intestinal epithelium is

Epithelial layer that lines the intestine. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the intestinal epithelium is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the intestinal epithelium connects to

The atlas records 12 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract and intestinal mucosa, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the intestinal epithelium. 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 bowel epithelial tissue, bowel epithelium, epithelial tissue of bowel, epithelial tissue of intestine, epithelium of bowel and epithelium of intestine, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001277, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract, intestinal mucosa, intestine and mucosa.
• A kind of: epithelium and simple columnar epithelium.
• subtype: epithelium of crypt of Lieberkuhn, epithelium of large intestine and epithelium of small intestine.
• contributes to morphology of: intestine.
• contains: intestinal villus.

Questions

Where is the intestinal epithelium?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the intestinal epithelium connect to?

Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, digestive tract, intestinal mucosa, intestine and mucosa.

Is the intestinal epithelium 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.