Hilum

Definitions: Hilum

Hilum

Noun

1. (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ: "the hilus of the kidney".

2. The scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle.

Etymology: Hilum \Hi"lum\, noun. [Latin expression, little thing, trifle.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	The point on the seed where it is attached to the vascular tissue of the grape. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Hilum

Synonym: hilus (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hilum

English words defined with "hilum": Antitropous ♦ caruncle, caruncula ♦ Hilal, hilar, Hile, Homotropous ♦ Omphalode ♦ Strophiole. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The longer linear opacities radiating from the lung hilum are known as Kerley A lines. (references)
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"Hilum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hilum" is used about 3 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)	100%	3	202,518

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.

Language		Translations for "hilum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Hilus (hilus), hilum, navle i forbindelse med druer,bær og korn, navle (cutaneous umbilical cicatrix, navel, umbilical adenoma, umbilicus). (various references)

Dutch		hylus, hylum, hilus (hilus), hilum (hilus), navel (navel, umbilicus). (various references)

Farsi		پیوندگاه گیاه , محل دخول رگ وپی , چیزخیلی ریزوکوچک . (various references)

Finnish		hilum, arpi (cicatrix, scar). (various references)

French		hile (hilus). (various references)

German		nabel (navel, umbilical, umbilicus). (various references)

Greek		σωματικό άνοιγμα σάν αφαλόσ, μάτι της ρώγας, πυρήνασ αμυλωδούσ κόκκου, αφαλόσ (navel), ομφαλόσ (navel, umbilicus), ουλή του στύλου της ραγός, οφθαλμός της ραγός. (various references)

Italian		ilo (hilus, LEIs, Local employment initiatives). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		肺門 (pulmonary hilum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はいも�" (pulmonary hilum). (various references)

Pig Latin		ilumhay

Portuguese		hilo (umbilicus). (various references)

Spanish		hilus (hilus), hilo (channel, duct, fine cord, fine scratch, grain, grain of the wood, grain of wood, lead, line, linen, rill, sleek, strand, string, thread, train, trench, trickle, twine, vein, wire, yarn), hilio, ombligo (belly button, boss, navel, omphalos, umbilicus). (various references)

Swedish		hilum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "hilum" (pronounced 'Hi"lum'): Asylum, Cerebellum, Coelum, Collum, Corallum, Cribellum, Epiphyllum, Flabellum, flagellum, Glabellum, Haustellum, hoodlum, Intervallum, Involucellum, Labellum, Mesophyllum, Peplum, Podophyllum, Postscutellum, Rostellum, Sacellum, Scutellum, Sigillum, Skellum, Specollum, spirillum, Vallum, Vellum, Veretillum, Vexillum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-m-u"
	-2 letters: him, hum, lum, mil.
	-3 letters: hi, hm, li, mi, mu, uh, um.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-m-u"
	+1 letter: hamuli, helium, mulish.
	+2 letters: chillum, heliums, holmium, humidly, lithium, lumpish, muhlies, mushily, thulium.
	+3 letters: chillums, chummily, clumpish, halutzim, haulmier, holmiums, humbling, humility, lithiums, lumpfish, mirthful, mouthily, mulching, mulishly, philtrum, plumpish, qualmish, scholium, thallium, thuliums.
	+4 letters: azimuthal, chalutzim, colchicum, gemutlich, haulmiest, homebuilt, homunculi, humanlike, humiliate, inhumanly, lumpishly, lunchtime, mouthlike, mullahism, multihued, multihull, multipath, scholiums, shlumping, thalliums, thumbnail, triumphal, unhelming.
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