The area where the seed was attached to the ovary, known as the hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

This scar, also called hilum, is where the seed was attached to the seed vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Book of Farming] Reference

Or Hilary is said of hilum, which is to say dark matter, for he had in his dictes great obscurity and profoundness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 2] Reference

'Terraque corpus quae dedit ipsa capit neque dispendi facit hilum.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

The concentric rings are all but invisible, the hilum is stellate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference

The point on the seed where it is attached to the fruit is called the hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

Note that each starch granule shows an eccentric hilum with concentric markings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

At the time of harvesting, the seeds are deep indigo-blue, the hilum being white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

If the embryo is already attached to the endosperm of the seed. remove the hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

In this case damaging the hilum is not a problem because the scratching is so gentle.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

On the other face of the grain which is towards the palea, the hilum is seen at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The concentric rings are all but invisible, also the hilum in the majority of granules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference

Seeds pink, reddish brown to black, white, or mottled red with a white hilum and a long aril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The seedcoat is nicked opposite the microphyle or hilum (along the dotted line) to avoid damaging the seed embryo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Germination starts 2 to 3 days from sowing and a button-like structure will emerge at least 3 mm from the opened hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

She suffered a broken spine, subdural haemorrhage of the brain and a torn hilum, the membrane which connects the lungs to the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Seeds should be sown just below the soil surface with the hilum facing downwards and covered to a depth about equal to their diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

The small, brown, glistening three-angled seeds, which have a little white hilum near their apices, retain their viability three years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference

The hilum is on the transpyloric plane, 5 cm. from the middle line.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 8. Surface Markings of the Abdomen] Reference

It presents near its medial border a long fissure, termed the hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference

The renal vein runs obliquely upward from the hilum to the vena cava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Slide 66: 56 Vessels Renal vein at hilum, renal artery 41 Renal artery 42.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

This fissure is named the hilum, and transmits the vessels, nerves, and ureter.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs] Reference

The left adrenal gland often extends relatively far downward toward the renal hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Katarzyna Dziekan sent us this lovely picture of a conker with a heart-shaped hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

In short, structures lying at the hilum of the cerebral hemispheres on its medial side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

More testing has revealed "hot spots" in the pectoral area and the hilum region between her lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [poststar.com RSS] Reference

Tuberculosis •Note RUL cavitating infiltrate progressing to scarring •Right hilum is pulled up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Apex, base, hilum, and root  Left lung  Superior and inferior lobes  Fissure - oblique .    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The mass was found at surgery to be in close proximity with the aortic arch and the left pulmonary hilum, alongside the left vagus nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

30 20 77 10 1 14 8 60 90 The renal artery arises from the aorta and enters the renal hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Incolumem prxftat: Nec defit ponderis hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex] Reference

Remove hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

Locate the hilum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

Remove hilum cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

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