Do we say ileum or ilium

ileum 2 occurrences

The remaining portion is named the ileum, because of the many folds into which it is thrown.

Thus, in the lower part of the ileum there are numerous glands in oval patches known as Peyer's patches.

ilium 40 occurrences

Ilium Tu tamen illudis; tua magnificentia tanta est:

I would not exchange Kit Marlowe's "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" for all the critical commentaries of Teutonic pedants on the character and attributes of Helen of Troy as these have (to them) been revealed by archaeological investigations.

[Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Lat.]

Even Father Zeus himself acknowledged a bias for sacred Ilium and its king and people over all the cities of terrestrial men beneath the sun and starry heaven.

In this way the towns of Dardanus and Ilium, whose ancient affinity with the Romans was traced to the times of Aeneas, became free, along with Cyme, Smyrna, Clazomenae, Erythrae, Chios, Colophon, Miletus, and other names of old renown.

The blind is a thick and short gut, having one mouth, in which the ilium and colon meet: it receives the excrements, and conveys them to the colon.

Fuit Ilium, et ingens Gloria Teucrorum!...

Phryne was of the beautified baboon cast of features, and as for Helen of Troy, the best authorities now lean to the belief that the face that launched a thousand ships and fired the topless towers of Ilium was a reversion to the arboreal.

Now, just attend to the sequel of the passage quoted by the right honourable gentleman: "'O Divum domus Ilium et inclyta bello Mcenia Dardanidum!

If only our passports had taken us to Troy we could have looked down the plains of Ilium to the English and French ships, and Australian and French colonials fighting up the hillside across the bay.

Alas for Troy and looking down on a modern battle from the heights of Ilium!

[Footnote 1: "Ilium quoque pollicitum fuisse, se aliquando has regiones revisurum."

that Ilium of our woe!

He read: "'Talked to a man from Ilium to-day in Palace Bar.

Not louder cries, when Ilium was in flames, Were sent to Heaven by woful Trojan dames, 700 When Pyrrhus toss'd on high his burnish'd blade, And offer'd Priam to his father's shade, Than for the cock the widow'd poultry made.

"Tooke's Diversions, ii, 7. "Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the Atridæ' sake.

"Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe's sake.

I have seen music-hall sketches, comic interludes that in their unexpectedness and naïve naturalness remind me of the comic passages in Marlowe's Faustus, I waited (I admit in vain) for some beautiful phantom to appear, and to hear an enthusiastic worshipper cry out in his agony: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Topless in Ilium.

Topless in Ilium.

Topless in Ilium.

Topless in Ilium.

Fuit Ilium, et ingens Gloria.

For this he gave them money, assuring them that they had won a great success and had in very truth captured that famous Ilium of old, and he set up a bronze statue of Achilles himself.]

ILUS, a legendary king of Troy, the grandson of Dardanus, and the founder of Ilium.

Do we say   ileum   or  ilium