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hilum

NOUN
  1. the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle
  2. (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ
    the hilus of the kidney

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  • The hilum is a small pore through which water can pass directly to the embryo; it and the seed coat control the rate at which dry beans and peas absorb water and soften during cooking. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Cab. thermophilum is a distinctly different phototroph. Penn State Live
  • The hilum at the mid left contains some adipose tissue.
  • These arterioles frequently showed continuity at the glomerular hilum with segmental necrotizing glomerular lesions.
  • Or Hilary is said of hilum, which is to say dark matter, for he had in his dictes great obscurity and profoundness. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
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  • The hilum is a scar formed when the funiculus detaches from the seed at maturity.
  • It consists of a gray folded lamina arranged in the form of an incomplete capsule, opening medially by an aperture called the hilum emerging from the hilum are numerous fibers which collectively constitute the peduncle of the olive. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
  • A hilar groove is located at the centre of the seed hilum area, and consists of more elongated macrosclereids.
  • Abdominal CT showed a subcapsular splenic hematoma and a large, irregular, cystic lesion at the splenic hilum.
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