NOUN
- a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth
- a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways
How To Use alveolus In A Sentence
- 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.
- The inner surface of the intermaxillary bone and the opposing surface of the receding alveolus of the other side are freshened by slicing off the mucous covering. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
- When a fertilized egg is laid by the queen bee in an ordinary alveolus and the larva is fed with standard food, a small, sterile female, a worker bee, is born. Science's Awesome Frontier
- These problems can be fixed by grafting bone matter onto the alveolus.
- Specifically the H5N1 (SAa2,3Gal) receptors were found “on non-ciliated cuboidal cells at the junction between the respiratory bronchiole and alveolus†and on “a substantial number of cells lining the alveolar wall. †(This describes the substance of the lung tissue involved in gaseous exchange.) Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- Specifically the H5N1 (SAa2,3Gal) receptors were found “on non-ciliated cuboidal cells at the junction between the respiratory bronchiole and alveolus†and on “a substantial number of cells lining the alveolar wall. †(This describes the substance of the lung tissue involved in gaseous exchange.) Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- Initially growing downwards – like any normal mammalian upper canine – it is then rotated as the alveolus itself turns to force the tooth upwards, and it eventually emerges from the dorsal surface of the snout. Archive 2006-08-01
- The light from the Proteus penetrated through what seemed to him a vast thickness of tissue and in its muted intensity, the alveolus was a tremendous cavern, with walls that glinted moistly and distantly. Fantastic Voyage
- In the majority of cases this wide gap in the alveolus in front can be filled by forcible fracture of the projecting intermaxillary bone, which is then carried into line with the normal alveolar arch and there sutured until osseous union is secured. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
- 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
