The tiny hair-like projections that protrude from the inside of the small intestine that contain blood vessels that capture digested nutrients that are absorbed through the intestinal wall; the villi increase the absorptive surface area of the small intestine by approximately 30-fold. [ MP:0008108 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/rbabiuk http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]
Synonyms: villus intestinalis (intestinum tenue) enteric villus enteric villi villus villi intestinales enteric villous intestinal villi
Term information
- ZFA:0005125
- NCIT:C33874
- Wikipedia:Intestinal_villus
- BTO:0003121
- MA:0001563
- TAO:0005125
- FMA:15072
- SCTID:23230007
- EMAPA:35784
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Term relations
- organ component layer
- has part some striated border microvillus layer
- has part some blood vessel
- has part some epithelial cell
- part of some intestinal epithelium