papilla

[ UK /pæpˈɪlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf
  2. a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather
  3. a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
    the papillae of the tongue
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How To Use papilla In A Sentence

  • In addition to the tubules, the epithelial cells may also form nests, cords, single cells, micropapillae, and keratinous cysts.
  • The incidence of pancreatitis after endoscopic biopsy of the papilla is unknown.
  • The stroma of the papillary fronds consisted of loose fibrous tissue with abundant, thin-walled, congested blood vessels.
  • The microstructure of these long filaments of papillary horn is very similar in its dermal-epidermal interdigitation to that of baleen in whales.
  • In addition to the vallate and fungiform papillae of the tongue, taste buds are found in the soft palate, oropharynx, and epiglottis.
  • -- N.S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted above the body-whirl, and forming thereby a sub-cylindrical spire; spire obtuse apex papillated and hooked; body-whirl plaited longitudinally at its top; columellar lip furnished with only two plaits. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • However, this patient unfortunately died shortly after transformation of this papillary thyroid carcinoma.
  • This paper reports the presence of bacteria on the surface of filiform and fungiform papillae of rats using scanning electron microscopy.
  • Finally, the morphology of ruminal papillae showed significant difference between captive and wild muntjac which could be related to the diets that stimulate the growth of papillae .
  • Gila monster in which the front of the tongue was a bifurcated chemosensor and the back of the tongue remained a thick, papillae-covered organ used to slide food back into the throat. Wired Top Stories
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