HILAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hilar mean? 

• HILAR (adjective)
  The adjective HILAR has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or located near a hilum

  Familiarity information: HILAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or located near a hilum

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

hilum ((anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ)

Derivation:

hilum ((anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ)

hilum (the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle)

 Context examples 

A benign Leydig cell tumor which arises in the hilar area of the ovary.

(Ovarian Hilus Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Lung cancer with metastasis to ipsilateral peribronchial and/or ipsilateral hilar lymph nodes, including intrapulmonary nodes involved by direct extension of the primary tumor.

(Lung Cancer pN1 TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma that arises from the intrahepatic biliary tree (intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma) or from the junction, or adjacent to the junction, of the right and left hepatic ducts (hilar cholangiocarcinoma).

(Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It comprises three entities, according to the anatomic sites involved: extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, which affects extranodal sites (most often stomach, lung, skin, and ocular adnexa); nodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, which affects lymph nodes without evidence of extranodal disease; and splenic marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, which affects the spleen and splenic hilar lymph nodes, bone marrow, and often the peripheral blood.

(Marginal zone lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)