Alveolus

Definitions: Alveolus

Alveolus

Noun

1. A tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways.

2. A bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth.

Synonyms: Alveolus

Synonyms: air cell (n), air sac (n), tooth socket (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Concavity	Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Alveolus

English words defined with "alveolus": Alveole, Alveoli. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alveolus": Tooth Replantation. (references)

Etymologies containing "alveolus": Alveolate. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Alveolus : manuscrito escurialense S-II-18 (reference) Craniofacial Abnormalities and Clefts of the Lip, Alveolus and Palate: Interdisciplinary Teamwork Principles of Treatment, Long Term Results: 4th H (reference) Craniofacial anomalies and clefts of the lip, alveolus, and palate : interdisciplinary teamwork : principles of treatment, long term results /4th Hamburg international symposium (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Transfer of oxygen of inhaled air into the blood and of waste carbon dioxide of blood into the lungs occurs in the alveolus. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Alveolus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alveolus" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "alveolus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		alveolë, hojëz (cell). (various references)

Arabic		‏نقرة, ‏حجيرة هواء فى الرئة. (various references)

Bulgarian		килийка на восъчна пита (cell), малка кухина, алвеола (chamber, sac, socket). (various references)

Chinese		小窝 (Alveoli). (various references)

Farsi		حفره ء کوچک , حفره ء دندانی , حبابچه , شش خانه . (various references)

Finnish		hammaskuoppa (tooth-socket). (various references)

French		alvéole (alveolate). (various references)

German		Alveolus, Alveole (air sac), Lungenbläschen (air sac, pulmonary alveoli). (various references)

Greek		κυψελίδα πνευμόνα, φάτνωμα οδόντοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		� א�"ית. (various references)

Hungarian		foghang. (various references)

Indonesian		gelembung paru. (various references)

Italian		alveolo polmonare (air sac), alveolo (cell, electrode port, loculus, port, roof port, seed cell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		肺胞 (cavity), 歯槽 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しそう (florid expression, idea, instigation, look of death, master poet, municipal funeral, poetical imagination, poetical talent, priestly teacher, principle, shadow of death, thought), はいほう (cavity, news of defeat). (various references)

Korean		치조 (Alveoli). (various references)

Pig Latin		alveolusay

Portuguese		alvéolo (cavity, cell, honeycomb, seed cell). (various references)

Romanian		alveolã (alveole, cell). (various references)

Russian		альвеола. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		alveola. (various references)

Spanish		alvéolo pulmonar (air sac, air-cell), alvéolo (cell, honeycomb, seed cell, socket). (various references)

Swedish		alveol. (various references)

Turkish		alveol, diş yuvası (alveolar). (various references)

Ukranian		альвеола. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Alveolus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: albellus, alveolata. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "alveolus" (pronounced 'Al*ve"o*lus'): Abaculus, AEolus, Alto-cumulus, Angelus, Annulus, Articulus, Asilus, Astragalus, Bacillus, Baetulus, Bolus, Bucephalus, Callus, Canaliculus, Carolus, Cauliculus, Clitellus, Crotalus, Cucullus, Discobolus, Dolus, Dracunculus, Embolus, Entellus, Fasciculus, Flocculus, funiculus, Gladiolus, Glomerulus, Gryllus, Hamulus, Hectocotylus, hilus, homunculus, Hydrocaulus, hydrocephalus, Iulus, Julus, Lienculus, Limulus, loculus, Malleolus, modiolus, modulus, Monomphalus, Nautilus, Nucellus, Nucleolus, Obelus, Obolus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-o-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: avulse, loaves, ovules, values.
	-3 letters: aloes, laevo, laves, losel, louse, loves, oaves, ollas, ousel, ovals, ovule, salol, salve, salvo, selva, slave, soave, solve, suave, ulvas, uveal, uveas, vales, valse, value, veals, voles.
	-4 letters: ales, alls, aloe, also, aves, avos, ells, lase, lave, lavs, leal, leas, leva, levo, lose, love, lues, luvs, olea, oles.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-o-s-u-v"
	+2 letters: marvellous, unsolvable.
	+3 letters: marvelously.
	+4 letters: ultraviolets, unresolvable.
	+5 letters: overzealously, vulcanologies.
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