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alveolus

NOUN
  1. a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth
  2. a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways

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  • At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open. You Raising Your Child
  • But when an egg with a similar genetic code is laid in a larger alveolus and the larva is fed a special food -- the royal jelly -- the resulting insect is a queen bee, a larger, fertile female. Science's Awesome Frontier
  • Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks. Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry
  • At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open. You Raising Your Child
  • The small part in front of this suture constitutes the premaxilla (os incisivum), which in most vertebrates forms an independent bone; it includes the whole thickness of the alveolus, the corresponding part of the floor of the nose and the anterior nasal spine, and contains the sockets of the incisor teeth. II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)
  • The tooth is two-rooted, with each root housed in its own alveolus.
  • Moreover alveolus clearances in transmission machine could submerge the rotor's libration so as to decrease loads' dithering.
  • Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks. Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry
  • As altitude increases above sea level, atmospheric pressure drops with a parallel decrease in the amount of oxygen available at the blood/air interface in the lung alveolus.
  • He found a major cause of bronchial asthma and many other chronic diseases to be a deficiency of carbon dioxide in the alveolus of our lungs.
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