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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Villi \Vil"li\, n., pl. of Villus.
Villus \Vil"lus\, n.; pl. Villi. [L., shaggy hair, a tuft of hair.]
(Anat.) 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.
pl. (Bot.) Fine hairs on plants, resembling the pile of velvet.
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) (plural of villus English)
WordNet
n. a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane
[also: villi (pl)]
See villus
Wikipedia
Villi may refer to:
- Plural of Villus
- Le Villi, an opera-ballet of 1884 by Giacomo Puccini
- Ilkka Villi (born 1975), Finnish actor and writer
- Villi Bossi (born 1939), Italian sculptor
- Villi Hermann (born 1941), Swiss film director and screenwriter
- Villi Baltins, Soviet sprint canoer
Usage examples of "villi".
His muscles revere knotted fighter than a reaction coiLike Another pasts that clove to Otto of the villi and the deflector shields would surely collapse under the immense load.
There is a resultant active circulation of the fluid from the chorioid plexuses, where it leaks out of the blood, through the ventricles, out into the sub-arachnoid space, and through the arachnoid villi, where it is absorbed back into the blood.
The pancreatic fluid makes an emulsion of the fat contained in our food, but just how the fatty particles get into the villi we must leave Brucke and Kolliker to settle if they can.
The fragile placenta must be chemically and hormonally persuaded to release from the blood-vessel-enriched uterus, without damaging too many of its multitude of tiny villi, then floated free from the uterine wall in a running bath of highly oxygenated nutrient solution.
In the alimentary canal are certain pointed eminences called villi, and certain ridges called valvuloe conniventes.
A section of the Ileum, turned inside out, so as to show the appearance and arrangement of the villi on an extended surface.
The villi are structures especially adapted to the work of absorption, and they are found only in the small intestine.