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villous

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villous [′vil·əs]
(botany)
Having a surface covered with long, soft, shaggy hairs.


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It was a beautiful, round, full placenta: dark red on one side--the villous side, which had been attached to the wall of my womb--and glistening silver on Jacob's side, due to the covering of his membranes.
Patchy villous atrophy with cellular infiltrate on biopsy is characteristic of this disorder (Kuitunen et al.
Although there are many types of colon polyps, colon cancer originates from just one type of polyp, called a villous adenoma.
 
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