Hilus

Definition: Hilus

Hilus

Noun

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

Etymology: Hilus \Hi"lus\, noun. [New Latin]. (Websters 1913)

"Hilus" is a common misspelling or typo for: halos, hauls, hills.

Synonym: Hilus

Synonym: hilum (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hilus

English words defined with "hilus": hilum. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hilus": Gastrinoma. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Hilus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (chyle).

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 "hilus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Hilus (hilum). (various references)

Dutch		hilus (hilum), hilum (hilum). (various references)

French		hile (hilum). (various references)

German		Hilum (hilum). (various references)

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

Pig Latin		ilushay

Russian		хилус (chyle, hili). (various references)

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

Derivations
	Words ending with "hilus": trochilus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "hilus" (pronounced 'Hi"lus'): Asilus, Bacillus, Bolus, Callus, Clitellus, Cucullus, Dolus, Entellus, Gryllus, Hydrocaulus, Iulus, Julus, Nucellus, Ocellus, Palus, Paxillus, Peplus, Phacellus, Phallus, Prothallus, Pullus, Pulvillus, Scamillus, thallus, Verticillus, Villus, Vitellus, Zulus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-l-s-u"
	-1 letter: lush, shul.
	-2 letters: his, lis.
	-3 letters: hi, is, li, sh, si, uh, us.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-l-s-u"
	+1 letter: bluish, mulish.
	+2 letters: blueish, bullish, bushily, cultish, cushily, dishful, dullish, gushily, halitus, heliums, huipils, hurlies, huskily, inhauls, loudish, loutish, lumpish, lushing, muhlies, mushily, publish, pushily, sulphid, thulias, uphills, wishful.
	+3 letters: aguishly, bluefish, blushing, bullshit, bushlike, chillums, churlish, cliquish, clubbish, clumpish, dishfuls, dudishly, flourish, flushing, ghoulies, ghoulish, halibuts, hauliers, holibuts, holmiums, huipiles, hulkiest, hurlings, husklike, hustling, languish, lithiums, lumpfish, lungfish, luthiers, mulishly, nilghaus, plumpish, plushier, plushily, purplish, qualmish, rushlike, scholium, shauling, sluggish, slushier, slushily, slushing, sluttish, suchlike, sulphide, sulphids, sulphite, sunlight, thuliums, uplights, uppishly, uroliths, urushiol.
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