The hilum of each kidney is a little below it, while its left end approximately touches the lower limit of the spleen.
The second part runs vertically downward in front of the hilum of the right kidney, and into this part the pancreatic and bile ducts open.
Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.
A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
At the time of harvesting, the seeds are deep indigo-blue, the hilum being white.
The hilum or base of the seed, and the chalaza or base of the nucellus are united by means of the raphe r.
The embryo is curved round the albumen, so that its cotyledons and radicle both come near the hilum (amphitropal).
The concentric rings are all but invisible, the hilumis stellate.
The concentric rings are all but invisible, also the hilum in the majority of granules.
From this instance it may be assumed that the hilum may only be defined correctly as the spot of union between the body of the seed and the funiculus.
It corresponds, however, with a straight subclavated line running from the hilum to the elevation whence the curved line originates, although this correspondence is not always well marked.
Hence, in the final condition of the parts, the main splenic vessels at the hilum are situated between two peritoneal layers of which the ventral (Fig.
The seeds themselves are very interesting; they are covered with a thick wrinkled skin, and they show distinctly the hilum (c in fig.
But the closest parallel to the relation borne by the skeleton of an extinct species to an extant one, is presented by that of the hilum to a seed, or of the umbilicus to a mammal.
On the anterior surface there is a transverse sulcus or hilum from which a large vein emerges.
In Mammals the notches, when they are present, so frequently correspond to the points of entrance of arteries at the hilum that the present writer believes that the former are determined by the latter in many cases (see F.
Tapioca starch grains are usually grouped together in twos or threes; when they rest on their flat surfaces they appear circular and each hilum is surrounded by a dark ring, when on their sides they are seen to be sugar-loaf shaped.
In the potato starch grain the hilum is not central and the striations are not circular.
Wheat has large and almost round grains without a hilum or striations, those of Barley are very similar but smaller and not so uniformly round.
The dark spot is called the hilum and the rings are known as striations.
The position of the hypocotyls was observed during four successive days, and they continued to bend towards the hilum and lower surface of the seed.
The form of thehilum is constant throughout a genus, and sometimes also in whole tribes.
The organic base, or chalaza, thus becomes the apparent summit, and the orifice is at the base, by the side of the hilum or place of attachment.
Campylotropous ovule of a Chickweed: c, hilum and chalaza; f, orifice.
When the ovule is so developed that the chalaza is at the hilum (next the placenta), and the micropyle is at the opposite extremity, there being a short funicle, the ovule is orthotropous.
In such an ovule a straight line drawn from the hilum to the micropyle passes along the axis of the ovule.
An appendage growing at or about the hilum of a seed.
Inverted and straight, with the micropyle next the hilum and the radicle consequently inferior.
An excrescence or appendage at or about thehilum of a seed.
Seeds quadrate or oblong with truncate ends, mealy-pubescent or glabrate; hilum linear.
Half-inverted and straight, with the hilum lateral.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hilum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
