[a. Gr. ἐπένδυμα, f. ἐπενδύειν, f. ἐπί over + ἐν on + δύειν to put. Cf. Fr. épendyme.] ‘Virchow’s name for the lining membrane of the cerebral ventricles and of the central spinal canal’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1872. Mivart, Elem. Anat., 366. Another very delicate epithelial layer called the ependyma.
1887. G. V. Ellis, Anat. (ed. 10), 213. Four of them [ventricles] … are lined throughout by a thin membrane named ependyma.
