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Definitions: VILLI |
VILLINoun1. Pl. of Villus. Plural1. Of Villus |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The tiny, fingerlike projections on the surface of the small intestine. Villi help absorb nutrients. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VILLI |
| English words defined with "VILLI": chorionic villus, chorionic villus biopsy, chorionic villus sampling ♦ hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole ♦ molar pregnancy ♦ Polycotyledonary ♦ Villiform, Villous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VILLI": Chorionic Villi, Chorionic Villi Sampling ♦ Necator americanus ♦ Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VILLI": Villus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "VILLI" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Finnish (independent, savage, wild). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The chorionic villi are enlarged, and contain dense laminated connective tissue, and the capillaries distributed throughout the villi are compressed by this connective tissue proliferation; H&E stain; magnification 450X.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Villi on the lining of the small intestine help absorb nutrients. (references) | |
Without villi, a person becomes malnourished--regardless of the quantity of food eaten. (references) | ||
Chorionic villi sampling (CVS) involves extracting a tiny amount of fetal tissue at 9 to 11 weeks of pregnancy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VILLI" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.48% of the time. "VILLI" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.48% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (plural) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "VILLI": Chorionic Villi ♦ Chorionic Villi Sampling. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
villi | 21 |
chorionic villi sampling | 17 |
ira villi | 9 |
chorionic villi | 8 |
pohjola villi | 4 |
intestine small villi | 4 |
chronic sampling villi | 4 |
intestine villi | 2 |
function villi | 2 |
diagram villi | 2 |
manilli villi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VILLI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | standset modning af villi (arrested maturation of villi), seneskedetraevler (tendovaginal villi), primære villi (primary villi), chorionvilli (chorionic villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | villi chorii (chorionic villi), villi choriales (chorionic villi), rijpingsstilstand van de choriale vlokken (arrested maturation of villi), primitieve vlokken (primary villi), primitieve villi (primary villi), primaire villi (primary villi), primaire chorionvlokken (primary villi), chorionvlokken (chorionic villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | villosités choriales (chorionic villi), villosité primitive (primary villi), motoricité des villosités intestinales (motoricity of the villi), arrêt de maturation des villosités choriales (arrested maturation of villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Zottenverschleppung (propagation of villi), Zottenreifungsarrest (arrested maturation of villi), Zottenmotorik (motoricity of the villi), Sehnenscheidenzotten (tendovaginal villi), Primärzotten (primary villi), Chorionzotten (chorionic villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωτογενής λάχνη (primary villi), χοριακές λάχνες (chorionic villi), διακοπή ανάπτυξης χοριακών λαχνών (arrested maturation of villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | villi sinoviali (tendovaginal villi), villi primitivi (primary villi), villi placentari (chorionic villi), villi coriali (chorionic villi), arresto della maturazione dei villi coriali (arrested maturation of villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illivay vilosidade coriónica (chorionic villi). (various references) vellos primarios (primary villi), detención en la maduración de las vellosidades coriales (arrested maturation of villi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VILLI": villiform. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "VILLI": microvilli, pulvilli. (additional references) | |
Words containing "VILLI": anvilling, bedevilling, cavilling, devilling, outcavilling, vaudevillian, vaudevillians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VILLI" (pronounced vi"lē) |
| 3 | -i" l ē | Billie, Billy, Chile, chili, chilly, dilly, filly, frilly, fusilli, gillie, Gilly, hilly, Lily, really, silly, Willy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-l-v" | |
-1 letter: vill. | |
-2 letters: ill. | |
-3 letters: li. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-l-v" | |
+2 letters: civilly, illuvia, lividly, villain, villein, vitelli. | |
+3 letters: diluvial, illative, illusive, illuvial, illuvium, livelier, livelily, livingly, lixivial, pulvilli, silvical, vanillic, vanillin, veillike, vialling, villains, villainy, villatic, villeins, virilely, vitellin. | |
+4 letters: anvilling, cavilling, civically, devilling, illatives, illuviums, invalidly, ivorybill, liveliest, millivolt, rivalling, trivially, uncivilly, vanillins, villiform, villosity, vitelline, vitellins. | |
+5 letters: bidonville, devilishly, drivelling, fluviatile, frivolling, illatively, illusively, illuviated, inviolable, inviolably, ivorybills, larvicidal, lenitively, livability, livelihood, liveliness, lovability, microvilli, millivolts, palliative, snivelling, swivelling, valvulitis, velleities, vermicelli, vermillion, vigilantly, villainess, villainies, villainous, virginally, visionally, vitriolled, volatilise, volatility, volatilize, volitional, volubility. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 49 4C 4C 49 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. .-.. .-.. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001001 01001100 01001100 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V I L L I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0049 004C 004C 0049 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5643464643 |
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