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. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/rbabiuk http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]
Synonyms: villus intestinalis (intestinum tenue) enteric villus enteric villi villi intestinales villus enteric villous intestinal villi
Term information
- MA:0001563
- FMA:15072
- ZFA:0005125
- TAO:0005125
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/23230007
- EMAPA:35784
- BTO:0003121
- NCIT:C33874
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C1519988
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal_villus
- UMLS:C1519988 (ncithesaurus:Villus)
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Term relations
- anatomical entity
- organ component layer
- has part some striated border microvillus layer
- has part some blood vessel
- part of some intestinal epithelium
- has part some epithelial cell