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Nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine through microscopically elongated villi.
The epithelium, often with villi, crypts, and glands, simulates the normal mucosa of the gut.
Amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, or fetal serum can be tested for evidence of West Nile virus infection.
Unlike the hydatidiform moles, choriocarcinomas and placental-site trophoblastic tumors lack chorionic villi.
All details of her woodcarvings, even the villi, or small hairs on the stem of each plant, are done by hand with a knife.
In the duodenum the villi are closely packed, large, and frequently leaflike in shape.
Endoscopic biopsy of the distal duodenum is still the gold standard for diagnosis, showing marked changes in the intestinal mucosa with loss of villi and crypt hyperplasia.
It was characterized by a blunting of the intestinal villi and flattening of the epithelium covering these blunted villi.
Tissue hypercarbia, however, remained present as an expression of villi microcirculatory hypoperfusion.
For a chorion villi biopsy, a small piece of the future placenta is aspirated through a fine canula.
It is so choked by intermingling villi and their branches that its continuity is lost on gross inspection.
Anchoring villi extend outward from the fetal side and fuse with the decidua basalis to hold the organ's shape.
The chorionic villi are structures around the amniotic sac that develop into the placenta.
In many people, these villi are covered or clogged by mucoid plaque making it difficult for the body to absorb the necessary nutrients properly.
The villi in celiac patients have collapsed and fail to absorb nutrients.
Another feature of the mucosa that greatly multiplies its surface area is that of tiny projections called villi.
The large number of villi give the internal intestinal wall a velvety appearance.
The epithelium of the small intestine forms projections called villi, which are interspersed with small pits called crypts.
Cells are continuously produced in the crypts, migrate onto the villi, and are eventually shed into the lumen of the intestine.
The chorionic villi cause the mother's blood vessels in their vicinity to rupture, and the villi become bathed directly in maternal blood.
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Examples from Classical Literature
These septa, which belong to the serotina, lie between the arborescent villi of the chorion.
Injections made retrograde from the thoracic duct, pass through the villi into the intestines.
When the allantois adheres to the subzonal membrane vascular processes grow out from it into these villi.
The villi are arranged in ridges which radiate from a non-villous longitudinal strip on the concave surface of the chorion.
In the passage of the egg through the oviduct the vacuolated follicle cells grow out into very peculiar long processes or villi.
Between the villi are found the openings of the intestinal glands.
The ends of the villi were enlarged with knob-like processes.
The villi are hypertrophied, looking often like minute polypi.
It is through these villi that the digested food passes into the blood.
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