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UK
/ˌæɹɪˈəʊlɐ/
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NOUN
- small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite
- small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing
How To Use areola In A Sentence
- And it's not like viewers saw nipple or areolae, viewers saw cleavage. Dr. Logan Levkoff: Those Bad Breasts - Take II (Katy Perry Edition)
- Biareolate: with two cells or areoles: see bilocular. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga. Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
- Therefore dissection of the nasal skin flap during rhinoplasty should be limited to the deep areolar tissue plane just above the cartilage and bone, leaving the musculoaponeurotic layer intact.
- If a surgical procedure is necessary, care should be taken to preserve breast function by using a radial incision, which has less chance of severing the nerve supply or lactiferous ducts than the usual circumareolar incision.
- Found above the falls are whitebacked night heron Gorsachius leuconotus, African finfoot Podica senegalensis and rock pratincole Glareola nuchalis. Mosi-oa-Tunya Victoria Falls, Zambia
- Loose ( areolar ) connective tissue - ( in blue ) - surrounding the epithelium of tubules.
- The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- There was no apparent deviation in the ordinary progress of the pustule to a state of maturity from what we see in general; yet there was a total suspension of the areola or florid discolouration around it, until the scarlatina had retired from the constitution. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
- They have a thick, leathery peel dotted with areolas (colored rings, generally at the base of spines in cacti) loaded with irritating glochids. Nopales, tunas and pitayas