villus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin villus (“shaggy hair”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvillus (plural villi)
- (biology) A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines.
- 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
- 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
- 1966 February, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:
- Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.”
- (botany) One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editsmall projection from a membrane
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Latin
editEtymology
editDialectal variant of vellus (“fleece”).
Noun
editvillus m (genitive villī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | villus | villī |
genitive | villī | villōrum |
dative | villō | villīs |
accusative | villum | villōs |
ablative | villō | villīs |
vocative | ville | villī |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “villus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “villus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- villus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- villus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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