Associations to the word «Hilus»

Wiktionary

HILUS, noun. (anatomy) A hilum.

Dictionary definition

HILUS, noun. (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ; "the hilus of the kidney".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke