Definition of guano. : a fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats; broadly : excrement especially of seabirds or bats.
Developmental Biology Online. Epithelial tissues come in three basic types: squamous, cuboidal and columnar. These three types of tissue are seen in either simple (only one cell layer thick) or stratified (many cells in thickness) arrangements.
Metaplasia from squamous to columnar type may also occur, as in Barrett esophagus, in which the esophageal squamous epithelium is replaced by intestinal-like columnar cells under the influence of refluxed gastric acid.he most common epithelial metaplasia is columnar to squamous (squamous metaplasia), as occurs in the respiratory tract in response to chronic irritation.