Villus
Overview
Overview
Villus (Latin: “shaggy hair”[1], plural villi) can refer to:
- Intestinal villus. This is the most common meaning when not more precisely specified
- Chorionic villi, found on the surface of the outermost membrane (the chorion) of the fetus
- Arachnoid villi, located on the arachnoid membrane of the brain
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