villus

CVS or chorionic villus sampling, is offered at 10 to 13 weeks gestation.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

This restriction stems from the fact that the analysis currently necessitates either chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis, both procedures associated with discomfort and a slight risk of miscarriage.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

The same would be true of women who have prenatal testing of fetuses with amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, known as C.V.S.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

In the past, women had to undergo chorionic villus sampling, in which cells are taken from the placenta, or amniocentesis, which involves removing fluid from the womb, to test for the chromosomal abnormality.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2018

Each villus contains a loop of blood-vessels, and another vessel, the lacteal, so called from the Latin word lac, milk, because of the milky appearance of the fluid it contains.

From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

Having an extra-thick uterine lining, as is the case in humans, helps the female body keep at bay the tentacle-like villi of the invasive human placenta should pregnancy occur.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024

The small intestine is a long tube-like organ with a highly folded surface containing finger- like projections called the villi.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The walls of the small intestine contain small, finger-like projections called villi and microvilli that increase surface area for absorption of nutrients by diffusion.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

In the small intestine, the products of food digestion are absorbed by different structures in the villi.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Proliferative changes in the synovial membrane are attended with increased vascularity and thickening of the membrane and an enlargement of its villi and fringes.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson