VILLUS (villi)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: villi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does villus mean? 

• VILLUS (noun)
  The noun VILLUS has 1 sense:

1. a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane

  Familiarity information: VILLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VILLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("villus" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "villus"):

chorionic villus (one of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta)

 Context examples 

But he says that in "animal studies, it has been shown that microplastics may cause intestinal damage, remodeling of the intestinal villi, distortion of iron absorption and hepatic stress."

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

A cyst lined by tissue that resembles synovial villi.

(Metaplastic Synovial Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

A gestational trophoblastic disorder in which there is no embryo or normal placental tissue and the chorionic villi are hydropic.

(Complete Hydatidiform Mole, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized histologically by atrophy of mucosal villi and crypts with extensive subepithelial collagen deposition.

(Collagenous Sprue, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase in any epithelial cells of the intestinal mucosa appearing as elongated villi or crypts.

(Mucosal Hyperplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A gestational trophoblastic disorder characterized by the presence of an abnormal fetus and two populations of chorionic villi: one population which is unremarkable and a second one which shows hydropic changes.

(Partial Hydatidiform Mole, NCI Thesaurus)

Decrease in parenchymal cell number and/or size, often associated with shortening of villi (SI) and/or glands (LI)

(Mucosal Atrophy of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The mucosa has a large number of goblet cells but does not have any villi.

(Large Intestinal Wall Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal large leukocyte found in the blood in hairy cell leukemia; it has numerous irregular cytoplasmic villi that give it a flagellated or hairy appearance.

(Hairy Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Consumption of gluten protein triggers an immune response which damages small intestinal villi and prevents adequate absorption of nutrients.

(Celiac Disease, NCI Thesaurus)