MICROVILLUS

Domain	Definition
Health	A minute process or protrusion from the free surface of a cell. (references)
Medicine	Projection on the villus cell. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Microvillus

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A microvillus (usually not occurring alone, so usually referred to as the plural microvilli) is a small (5 µm) hairlike structure on the surface of absorptive and secretory epithel cells to increase their surface.

Crosswords: MICROVILLUS

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

Dutch (microvillus).

Usage Frequency: MICROVILLUS

"MICROVILLUS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MICROVILLUS" 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)

Modern Translation: MICROVILLUS

Language		Translations for "MICROVILLUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		mikrovilli. (various references)

Dutch		microvillus. (various references)

French		microvillus, microvillosité. (various references)

German		Mikrovillus. (various references)

Italian		microvillo. (various references)

Pig Latin		icrovillusmay

Portuguese		microvilosidade. (various references)

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

Anagrams: MICROVILLUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-l-m-o-r-s-u-v"
	-4 letters: mollusc, vicious, villous.
	-5 letters: cilium, civism, clours, corium, coulis, cullis, curios, limuli, loculi, locums, micros, mucors, mucros, rimous, scroll, surimi, villus.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-l-m-o-r-s-u-v"
	+1 letter: microvillous.
	+5 letters: circumvallations.
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

MICROVILLUS

Specialty Definition: MICROVILLUS

Health

Medicine

Specialty Definition: Microvillus

Crosswords: MICROVILLUS

Usage Frequency: MICROVILLUS

Modern Translation: MICROVILLUS

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Anagrams: MICROVILLUS

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