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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

iliare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: iˈljaːre

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hilar/ˈhaɪ.lər/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #18500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'addensamento ilare richiede ulteriori accertamenti."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or situated at a hilum, which is the depression or pit where blood vessels and nerves enter an organ.

    "The radiologist identified hilar lymphadenopathy on the patient's chest radiograph."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'hilum' meaning a little thing or the scar on a bean, entering medical and anatomical terminology in the late 19th century. The suffix '-ar' transforms the noun into an adjective denoting a relationship to a hilum, particularly in human anatomy referring to the indentation where structures enter an organ such as the lung or kidney.

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