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crypt (kript)   a blind pit or tube on a free surface.
 

anal crypts  furrows, with pouchlike recesses at the lower end, separating the rectal columns; called also anal sinuses.

crypts of Lieberkühn  intestinal glands on the surface of the intestinal mucous membrane.

crypts of tongue  deep, irregular invaginations from the surface of the lingual tonsil.

tonsillar crypts  epithelium-lined clefts in the palatine tonsils.





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