where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked
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Villus
//ˈvɪləs//
Synonyms for "villus" (1 found)
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23 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- زَغْبَة noun (small projection from a membrane)
- زُغابَة noun (small projection from a membrane)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 絨毛 /绒毛 noun (small projection from a membrane)
Czech
1 entries- klk noun (small projection from a membrane)
Finnish
1 entries- nukkalisäke noun (small projection from a membrane)
German
1 entries- Zotte noun (small projection from a membrane)
Hebrew
1 entries- סִיס noun (small projection from a membrane)
Hindi
1 entries- अंकुर noun (small projection from a membrane)
Hungarian
4 entries- (intestinal) bélboholy noun (small projection from a membrane)
- boholy noun (small projection from a membrane)
- bolyh noun (small projection from a membrane)
- bélbolyh noun (small projection from a membrane)
Irish
1 entries- villeas noun (small projection from a membrane)
Korean
1 entries- 융모 noun (small projection from a membrane)
Malay
2 entries- purasap noun (small projection from a membrane)
- vilus noun (small projection from a membrane)
Māori
1 entries- tīngoingoi noun (small projection from a membrane)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- memîle noun (small projection from a membrane)
Polish
1 entries- kosmek noun (small projection from a membrane)
Portuguese
1 entries- vilo noun (small projection from a membrane)
Slovak
1 entries- klk noun (small projection from a membrane)
Swedish
1 entries- villus noun (small projection from a membrane)
Turkish
1 entries- villus noun (small projection from a membrane)
Sample sentences
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Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
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