Crypt

A chamber wholly or partly underground.


In anatomy, a pit, depression or simple tubular gland.


A burial location beneath a church, mausoleum.


A small cavity in the body.


Pocketlike structure, as in a part with deep indentations.


A small sac, follicle, or cavity; for example, the crypts of Lieberkuhn’s, which are intestinal glands.


A small sac or cavity extending into an epithelial surface.


 


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