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What is the medical term meaning the part of an organ where vessels and nerves enter and leave?
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The hilum is the part of the organ where vessels and nerves enter and leave.
For most organs vessels and nerves enter an leave all over the place and not always near each other. However in the kidneys and lungs the major blood vessels enter at an area called the hilum.
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What is the anatomical name for the portion of the kidney where blood vessels and nerves enter?
The hilum is the medial depression in the kidney where the blood and lymph vessels and nerves enter.
Where do blood vessels and nerves enter and leave the bone?
All bones have foramen in them. These are canals or openings through which nerves and blood vessels go.
What body part does the medical root word hilus refer to?
The medical root word 'hilus' refers to the pit or depression in an organ where vessels and nerves enter (Latin).
What is the function of the hilus?
It is a depression where vessels, nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ
What is a round opening in the bones?
A foraman which is what allows nerves and blood vessels to enter bones.
An opening or passage in bones where blood vessels and nerves enter and leave is a?
foramen
What is the smooth round opening in bones?
A foraman which is what allows nerves and blood vessels to enter bones.
What is a smooth round opening in the bones?
A foraman which is what allows nerves and blood vessels to enter bones.
What the lungs illium is?
Perhaps you mean the hilum? It is the opening of the lung where the main bronchi (airway) enter the lung together with blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves.
What does the optic disc do?
Transfers information from one place to another in your eye.
An opening or passage in bones where blood nerves enter and leave?
FORAMEN - Opening or passage in bones where blood vessels and nerves enter and leave. The foramen magnum is the opening of the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes.
What is the system of the blood vessels and nerves inside the tooth called?
This system is known as a pulp chamber. The pulp chamber contains all the nerves, blood vessels and connective tissues in our teeth. These all enter through the base of the root, and travel up through it.
