HILAR
- pertaining to a hilum (a small opening in a bodily organ) [adj]
- pertaining to a hilum (a small opening in a bodily organ, also HILUS) [adj]
- a. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta b. the nucleus of a granule of starch
- mark or scar on a spore at the point of attachment to the spore-bearing structure
- the region at which the vessels, nerves, etc., enter or emerge from a part
- of, relating to, or located near a hilum