alveolus
/ˌalvɪˈəʊləs
/ /alˈvɪələs /noun (plural alveoli /ˌalvɪˈəʊlʌɪ/ /alˈvɪəliː/) chiefly Anatomy
1Any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange.Scientists also suspect that air pollutants might dampen the growth of alveoli, tiny air sacs in the lungs....
- Holes in the lungs occur as the alveoli air sacs break down.
- 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.
1.1An acinus (sac-like cavity) in a gland.
2The bony socket for the root of a tooth.No preserved teeth or alveoli can be observed in the premaxilla and dentary bones....
- The tooth row is present throughout the entire preserved length of the jaw and possesses 16 teeth and empty alveoli.
- Only a few, fragmentary teeth are preserved, and judging by the fragments and the size of alveoli, the teeth were gracile.
Derivatives
alveolate
/ /alˈvɪələt / adjective ...- The Siddall group addressed the molecular phylogeny of three, very similar, alveolate genera.
- Several workers have suggested that the entire alveolate clade is derived from a photosynthetic ancestor.
- One of them corresponded to an alveolate sequence belonging to the recently described marine.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin, 'small cavity', diminutive of alveus.
Rhymes
- radiative capture
- radiative equilibrium
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- radiator muff
- radiatory
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- radical center
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- radical empiricism
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- radical feminism
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- radicalisation
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- radicalism-conservatism