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Intestinal villi (sg.: villus) are small, finger-like projections that extend into the lumen of the small intestine.Each villus is approximately 0.5–1.6 mm in length (in humans), and has many microvilli projecting from the enterocytes of its epithelium which collectively form the striated or brush border.
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The stem of a plant, especially a woody one; also used to mean a rootstock, or particularly a basal stem structure or storage organ from which new growth arises. Compare lignotuber. caudiciform Stem-like or caudex-like; sometimes used to mean "pachycaul", meaning "thick-stemmed". caudicle diminutive of caudex.
Villus (Latin: "shaggy hair", pl.: villi) may refer to: . Intestinal villus, refers to any one of the small, finger-shaped outgrowths of the epithelial lining of the wall of the intestine.
The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant. [1] A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, was first published c. 1698. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose was first published in 1785.
More recent studies of adults with autoimmune enteropathy expanded the criteria to include prolonged diarrhea (lasting longer than six weeks) accompanied by malabsorption, diminished intraepithelial lymphocytosis, deep crypt lymphocytosis, increased crypt apoptotic bodies, and the exclusion of other causes of villous atrophy; each of the ...
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High grade chronic villitis has more than 10 inflamed villi per focus. High grade chronic villitis is differentiated into diffuse and patchy. The term patchy is used if less than 30% of distal villi are involved. The term diffuse is used if more than 30% of distal villi are involved. [citation needed] VUE has 2 prominent distinct patterns.