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PAPILLA
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Irregular inflected form: papillae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("papilla" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Derivation:
papillary (of or relating to or resembling papilla)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell
Example:
the papillae of the tongue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("papilla" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Holonyms ("papilla" is a part of...):
receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)
Derivation:
papillary (of or relating to or resembling papilla)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("papilla" is a kind of...):
appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Context examples:
The color of the elongated papillae varies from yellowish white to brown or black, depending upon staining by substances such as tobacco, food, or drugs.
(Hairy Tongue, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An acute or chronic gingival infection characterized by redness and swelling, necrosis extending from the interdental papillae along the gingival margins, pain, hemorrhage, necrotic odor, and often a pseudomembrane.
(Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The basilar papilla in chickens, like the cochlea in mammals, has hair cells arranged along the length of a basilar membrane according to frequency.
(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)
The principal symptoms are fever, congestion of the ocular conjunctivae, reddening of the lips and oral cavity, protuberance of tongue papillae, and edema or erythema of the extremities.
(Kawasaki Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Morphologically, it shows papillae with detached cell clusters.
(Borderline Ovarian Mixed Epithelial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
An endoscopic finding indicating the presence of a wide-opened papilla filled with mucin.
(Fish-Mouth Papilla with Mucin Hypersecretion, NCI Thesaurus)
Papillae have fibrovascular core lined by cuboidal to columnar cells with varying degree of pleomorphism.
(Papillary Adenocarcinoma of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The lower segment of the hair that circles the dermal papilla and the hair matrix.
(Hair Bulb, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by defective desquamation resulting in elongation of the filiform papillae.
(Hairy Tongue, NCI Thesaurus)
A dilation of the duodenal papilla that is the opening of the juncture of the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct.
(ampulla of Vater, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
