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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
hilum +    
spleen +    
hilum of kidney 
hilum of lymph node 
hilum of spleen 
The splenic hilum is a location on the surface of the spleen. It is the point of attachment for the gastrosplenic ligament, and the point of insertion for the splenic artery and splenic vein. [WP,unvetted].
lung hilus +  
marginal zone of spleen 
parenchyma of spleen +  
Schweigger-Seidel sheath 
spleen capsule 
spleen perifollicular zone 
spleen smooth muscle 
splenic arteriole +  
vasculature of spleen 

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: hilum lienale ;   spleen hilum ;   splenic hilum
Broad Synonyms: hilum
Related Synonyms: hilum splenicum
Xrefs: EMAPA:19303 ;   FMA:15841 ;   MA:0002670 ;   NCI:C33601 ;   SCTID:245377005 ;   UMLS:C0229685 ;   Wikipedia:Splenic_hilum
External Ontologys: present_in_taxon NCBITaxon:9606
Definition Sources: Wikipedia:Splenic_hilum

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