Meanings of pavement cell in English

The cells were spindle and roundish in shape and displayed a monolayer sheet in an epithelial pavement cell arrangement.

The cultured cells were spindle or round in shape, showing anaplastic and pleomorphic features, a pavement cell arrangement and multilayering without contact inhibition.

We hypothesize that proteins induced under dilute seawater conditions are important for the function of pavement cells in gills of hyper-osmoregulating G. mirabilis.