Definitions for papilla

papilla pa·pil·la

Spelling: [puh-pil-uh]
IPA: /pəˈpɪl ə/

Papilla is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in papilla (aaillpp).

Definitions for papilla

noun

  1. any small, nipplelike process or projection.
  2. one of certain small protuberances concerned with the senses of touch, taste, and smell:
  3. a small vascular process at the root of a hair.
  4. a papule or pimple.

Origin of papilla

1400-50; late Middle English Latin: nipple, teat, diminutive of papula pimple. See pap2

Examples for papilla

At the bottom of the follicle there is an upward projection of the true skin, a papilla, which contains blood-vessels and nerves.

Entrance of biliary and pancreatic ducts on summit of papilla of duodenum.

The duct is now severed with the scalpel at a point a little way from the papilla as shown at G in Fig. 3.

The papilla continues to elongate and the cryptogam to increase, until finally it invades nearly the entire length of the papilla.

A papilla of the dermis makes its appearance, the outer layer of which gradually calcifies to form the dentine and osseous tissue.

The larger ulcers are more frequently situated in the first part of the duodenum, often proximal to the papilla of Vater.

Later there is formed below this a denser aggregation of the corium, which ultimately becomes the papilla of the hair.

They are so numerous that 1,760 have been counted on one papilla of an ox's tongue.

In 56 of these the duct of Santorini passed from the main duct into the duodenum, opening upon a papilla situated 2.5 cm.

Papillif′erous, papillate: bearing one or more fleshy excrescences; Papill′iform, like a papilla in form.

Word Value for papilla
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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