One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface.
Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.
A tiny hair-like projection, often on the surface of mucous membranes. The plural is villi.
L. = a hair, (? from L. pilus = a tangled mass of hair); a thin projection of the lining of the small intestine, which resemble the nap of a cloth.
A slender projection of the mucous membrane of the small intestine.
(VIHL-luhs) A small, fingerlike projection of the small intestinal wall that contains connective tissue, blood vessels, and a lymphatic vessel, and which functions in the absorption of nutrients. Plural form is villi.
a short, filamentous projection on a surface, e.g. intestinal villi, chorionic villi.
a projection of the intestinal mucosal cells, containing connective tissue, blood vessels, and a lymphatic vessel; functions in absorption of end products of digestion; plural, villi
a multicellular projection of lining epithelium in areas specialized for absorption or secretion.
(vil´ lus) (plural: villi) [L.: shaggy hair] • A hairlike projection from a membrane; for example, from many gut walls.
Fingerlike projections of capillaries, usually covered with epithelial cells. Examples are seen in the lining of the small intestine and chorionic villi of the placenta.
(L. villus: hair) n. (pl. villi). A long, soft, shaggy hair, covering the fruit, flowers, and other parts of certains plants.
Microscopic finger-like projection on the surface of a cell
a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane
Latin a hair; hence, a vascular, hair-like process, usually projecting from a mucous surface.
(plural, villi) A finger-like outgrowth, as in the lining of the small intestine. Villi effectively increase the surface area of the gut wall
Minute fingerlike projections on certain vascular membranes.
pl. villi[L. a tuft of hair] In vertebrates, one of the minute, fingerlike projections lining the small intestine that serve to increase the absorptive surface area of the intestine.
finger-like projections of the intestinal wall that provide a large surface for the absorption of nutrients. (plural villi)
(pl. "villi") Latin for (shaggy) hair (hence O. Fr. villein, at a guess?). A hair-like projection, normally used in describing microvilli, hair-like projections from a cell wall which are not motile. They normally function as sensory organelles or to increase surface area for absorption.