What's the difference between hile and hilum?

Hile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hide. See Hele.
  • (n.) Same as Hilum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We did get a lot of backlash and some people stopped coming, but it has died down now.” Just down the road, Andy Hiles, chairman of Fylde rugby club, also defends accepting £19,000 from Cuadrilla and its partner Centrica for a year’s shirt sponsorship.
  • (2) These children deserve every protection that can be offered.” ChilOut founder Dianne Hiles said some of the boys had been in detention 14 months, and had witnessed acts of self-harm by other refugees and asylum seekers.
  • (3) W hile researching for the book I became aware that there are a lot of children in Denmark living with a homosexual father or mother, and that there was a need for a book for these children to identify with.
  • (4) One medical officer wrote that “[w]hile IV infusion is safe and effective, we were impressed with the ancillary effectiveness of rectal of ending the water refusal.” According to the report, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed “in a forward-facing position … with head lower than torso”, at which point the enema began.
  • (5) Hiles would happily renew the deal, “but if in three years’ time they are digging up half the area and flames are firing from the taps, we’d obviously think again,” he jokes.
  • (6) Distension of a segment with air trapping during the inspiratory phase with one or more tumor in the hile due to the impaction of mucous secretion of the bronchi above the obstruction.
  • (7) Adenomyoma of the distal common hile duct should be considered as enteropancreatic heterotopia.
  • (8) (1986) Biochemistry 25, 7314-7318), a conclusion reinforced by the present observation that the sequence around the Cys-16 is similar to a consensus sequence of ATP-binding sites from a number of proteins of diverse phylogenetic origin (Higgins, C.F., Hiles, I.D., Salmond, G.P.C., Gill, D.R., Downie, J.A., Evans, I.J., Holland, I.B., Gray, L., Buckel, S.D., Bell, A.W., and Hermondson, M. (1986) Nature 323, 448-450).
  • (9) In 32.9 %, return to usual work took up to 48 hours; in 57.9%, it was 2-5 days w hile the others required over 5 days.
  • (10) The minutes of the last meeting, which was on 27-28 October, said that “[w]hile no decision had been made, it may well become appropriate to initiate the normalization process at the next meeting”.

Hilum


Definition:

  • (n.) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.
  • (n.) The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other angiographic procedures also revealed marked hepatopetal collaterals (cavernous transformation) entering the liver through the hilum.
  • (2) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.
  • (3) In addition, two nodules at the hilum of the spleen were also removed.
  • (4) The extent of the defect in perfusion was closely related to involvement of the pulmonary vessels at the hilum by distortion, compression, or invasion by the tumour.
  • (5) The number of mast cells was highest in the hilum, in all the given reproductive states.
  • (6) The mechanisms for the development of this lesion are: 1. direct extension of the pancreatic cyst into the splenic hilum; 2. digestive effects of pancreatic enzymes on splenic vasculature and parenchyma; 3. pancreatitis occurring in ectopic intrasplenic pancreatic tissue and 4. liquefaction of splenic infarcts secondary to thrombosis of the splenic vessels.
  • (7) Since most pulmonary tumors metastasize via regional nodes to the pulmonary hilum and then to the mediastinum, the high sensitivity for the detection of pulmonary hilar abnormalities and the high specificity for detection of mediastinal lesions suggest that gallium scintigraphy is a valuable adjunctive test when used appropriately.
  • (8) 3) Ducts from the left lateral part of the left caudate lobe to the hepatic hilum named Bl l i were confirmed in 37.
  • (9) The diagnosis was made by CT examination which showed an eccentric enhancing region within a hypodense mass in the region of the splenic hilum.
  • (10) MR imaging is also useful in evaluating the hilum and mediastinum in patients who cannot receive intravenous contrast for CT evaluation.
  • (11) A patient's left vocal cord was paralysed by cancer in the left pulmonary hilum and apex.
  • (12) In the three cases of obstructive jaundice, the abscess cavities were located close to the hilum and compressed the main bile duct.
  • (13) The hilar plexus sends branches to the veins of the segments adjacent to the hilum.
  • (14) Plain chest film performed after blunt chest trauma showed blurring of the left pulmonary hilum in 53% of cases of traumatic aortic rupture (Group A, n = 15), and in no cases with negative aortography (Group B, n = 10).
  • (15) The juxtaglomerular apparatus, located in the glomerular hilum, consists of a vascular component (afferent and efferent arterioles and extraglomerular mesangium) and a tubular component (macula densa).
  • (16) Tumor located in the hilum of the lung was well visualized with 11C-AIB prior to chemotherapy.
  • (17) From these results, it is concluded that in carcinoma of the hepatic hilum the visualization of B1 in CT-scan after release of jaundice by PTCD strongly suggests the cancer invasion on B1, and requests the caudate lobe resection.
  • (18) Two-dimensional (2D) time-of-flight (TOF) stereoscopic MR angiographies (MRA) of the pulmonary vessels were obtained from 15 healthy volunteers and five patients with pulmonary cancer in the mediastinum and pulmonary hilum.
  • (19) Morphometric studies on myelinated fibres were performed on the nerve at mid-cervical, lung hilum and diaphragmatic levels.
  • (20) At presentation, US demonstrates the tumor mass within the liver or the hepatic hilum; it allows measurement of it and defines the relationship with portal vessels, biliary tract and other important structures.

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