alveolus
pronunciation
How to pronounce alveolus in British English:
UK [ælˈvi:ələs]
How to pronounce alveolus in American English:
US [ælˈviələs]
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- Noun:
- a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways
- a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth
Word Origin
- alveolus (n.)
- 1706, from Latin alveolus "a tray, trough, basin; bed of a small river," diminutive of alvus "belly, stomach, paunch, bowels; hold of a ship," from PIE *aulo- "hole, cavity" (cognates: Greek aulos "tube, pipe," Old Church Slavonic uliji, Lithuanian aulys "beehive" (hollow trunk), Armenian yli "pregnant").
Example
- 1. The early time tracheotomy and the bronchial tube pulmonary alveolus fills washes .
- 2. Strives for the pulmonary alveolus to gasify fully , increases the cough efficiency .
- 3. Biological basis of alveolus bone grafting .
- 4. Small air-conducting tube of lung , arising as branch of a bronchus , terminating in alveolus .
- 5. Duplicate will govern the phlegm fungus negative pulmonary tuberculosis patient bronchial tube pulmonary alveolus to fill the cleaning solution the examination .