The Caveats to the Rule of Six

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So we've got, we'll start with the simple. So that's one layer of flat squished cells. We have stratified squamous. Many layers of squished shaped cells. And then stratified columnar. There's six. That's a six. Now we have the caveats, which are the exceptions to those six. All right. What's the term that we use? Okay. Let's just put together some of the way that will be turned. If we go, what were the two again? In regards to layers. Simple and stratified. Yep. Then the shapes. Cuboidal cube. Columnar. Like a column. Yeah. But there's also pseudo

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