| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun alveolus.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (alveolus) | 1. A tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways.[Wordnet]. 2. A bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth.[Wordnet]. 3. A cell in a honeycomb.[Websters]. 4. A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil.[Websters]. 5. A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.[Websters]. | |
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Date "ALVEOLI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ALVEOLI
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | The terminal air sacs deep within the lungs. The inhaled oxygen diffuses across the thin alveolar membranes (the walls of the air sacs) into the blood stream, and at the same time carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli and is exhaled through the lungs. (references) | ||
| Health | Tiny sac-like air spaces in the lungs where transfer of carbon dioxide from blood into the lungs and oxygen from air into blood takes place. (references) | ||
| Mining | The lungs can be thought of as two elastic bags containing millions of little distensible air sacs. These air sacs or alveoli are all connected to the air passages, which branch and rebranch like the twigs of a tree. (references) | ||
| Religion | Tiny air sacs at the end of the bronchioles in the lungs. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: alveolus
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dental alveolus | In medicine, dental alveoli are naturally-occurring sockets in the jaws in which the roots of teeth are held. The lay term for dental alveoli is tooth sockets. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ALVEOLI
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Pulmonary alveoli | Geology | The pulmonary alveoli are minute air-filled sacs in the vertebrate lung, thin walled and surrounded by blood vessels. (references) | |
| Pulmonary Alveoli | Health | Small polyhedral outpouchings along the walls of the alveolar sacs, alveolar ducts and terminal bronchioles through the walls of which gas exchange between alveolar air and pulmonary capillary blood takes place. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: alveolus | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Pulmonary alveolus | 14 | Alveolus (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| Dental alveolus | 6 | Dental alveolus | 6 | |
| Alveolus (alternative meanings) | 3 | Pulmonary alveolus | 14 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
