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Definition of Hilus
1. Noun. (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ. "The hilus of the kidney"
Generic synonyms: Fissure
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Derivative terms: Hilar
Definition of Hilus
1. n. Same as Hilum, 2.
Definition of Hilus
1. Noun. (anatomy) A hilum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hilus
1. hilum [n HILI] - See also: hilum
Medical Definition of Hilus
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Literary usage of Hilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1921)
"In like manner we learn to vary our sense of normal so far as a hilus is ...
A normal hilus for a granite worker is never seen because his intake of dust is ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"The left kidney had a very large hilus, situated anteriorly. The right, on the
other hand, followed the median line and the ureters (shorter than usual but ..."
3. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"Morris ('04), in a summary of displacements, states that the kidney may be rotated
so that the hilus looks upward, outward, directly forward or backward, ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"The hilus Shadows.—On either side of the median shadow, within the lung fields,
... Usually, within the j hilus areas, even in persons not actively ..."
5. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"hilus Tuberculosis. (Peribronchial infiltration. ... Starting in the deep areas
about the hilus where childhood infection occurs, a fresh active process may ..."
6. Pediatrics (1899)
"These ligatures were left with long ends, thus forming a drain for the wound,
which was septic from the pus let free from the hilus. ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"In these latter types there is apparently a hilus tuberculosis and the ...
The infection then extends along the lymphatics to the hilus, and if not arrested ..."
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