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HA17: Female urethra

Urin17l
The epithelium makes a transition from urothelium to nonkeratinized, stratified squamous epithelium when it reaches the external orifice. The epithelium in this specimen (HA17) is intermediate within that transition: stratified columnar epithelium. The lumen at the left is part of the venous plexus (vp).