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What (who) is villus$90378$ - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Villous; Vilose; Villus (disambiguation)
Villous
·adj Furnished or clothed with villi.
II. Villous ·adj Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.
Villus
·noun Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.
II. Villus ·noun One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.
villus
['v?l?s]
¦ noun (plural villi -l??, -li:) Anatomy any of numerous minute elongated projections set closely together on a surface, especially in the absorbent lining of the small intestine.
Derivatives
villiform adjective
villous adjective
Origin
C18: from L., lit. 'shaggy hair'.
Wikipedia
Villus
Villus (Latin: "shaggy hair", plural villi) may refer to:
- Intestinal villus, refers to any one of the small, finger-shaped outgrowths of the epithelial lining of the wall of the intestine. Clusters of projections are referred as intestinal villi.
- Chorionic villi, found on the surface of the outermost membrane (the chorion) of the fetus
- Arachnoid villi, located on the arachnoid membrane of the brain
