HILUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: hili

Meaning:

(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ

Example:

the hilus of the kidney

Synonyms:

hilum; hilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hilus" is a kind of...):

fissure ((anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)