CRYPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crypt mean? 

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

1. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

Domain category:

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the presence of elongated, serrated crypts lined by proliferative epithelium.

(Gallbladder Hyperplastic Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

Microscopically, it is characterized by elongated, serrated crypts lined by proliferative epithelium.

(Hyperplastic Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

The increase in cell numbers is localized to a few (1-5) adjacent crypts

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

The control mice showed that URI is expressed in a specific dormant stem cell population located in the intestinal crypts (called crypts of Lieberkühn).

(New Way Discovered for Protecting against High-Dose Radiation Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The lumen of the glandular structures of a crypt.

(Crypt Glandular Lumen, NCI Thesaurus)

Colonocytes originate from stem cells located at the base of the crypts.

(Large Intestinal Glandular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Proliferation of the neuroendocrine cells isolated to the base of the crypts.

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

Neoplasm is isolated to two crypts in size.

(Neuroendocrine Adenoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

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 finding indicating the presence of Barrett esophagus in which the crypts are preserved or mildly distorted.

(Low Grade Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)