HILUS (hili)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: hili   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hilus mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hilum; hilus

Context example:

the hilus of the kidney

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

fissure ((anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

 Context examples 

An ovarian Leydig cell tumor for which the site of origin (ovarian hilus or ovarian stroma) cannot be determined.

(Ovarian Leydig Cell Tumor, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

The last of four regions in the cornu ammonis of the hippocampus and is also part of the hilus of the dentate gyrus.

(CA4 Field of the Cornu Ammonis, NCI Thesaurus)