Later used in anatomy (the depression or opening where ducts, vessels, etc enter an organ) and in biology (a scar on a seed or spore created by detachment).
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Pronunciation of HILUM ETYMOLOGY from Latin hīlum little thing, trifle; according to Festus, thought to have originally meant ‘that which adheres to a bean' EXAMPLE From: The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Normal and Pathological, Human and Comparative. Conducted By Sir William Turner, D.J. Cunningham, G.S. Huntington, A. Macalister, and J.G. M'Kendrick Volume XXXVII, New Series - Volume XVII, 1903 IX Archaeologia Anatomica, Hilum
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