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antrum

[an-truhm] / ˈæn trəm /


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This degradation of the wall, combined with pressure from the large, fluid-filled antrum, results in the expulsion of the oocyte surrounded by granulosa cells into the peritoneal cavity.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

The wider end of the funnel, the pyloric antrum, connects to the body of the stomach.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

Early tertiary follicles with their fluid-filled antrum will be stimulated by an increase in FSH, a gonadotropin produced by the anterior pituitary, to grow in the 28-day ovarian cycle.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dropsical dilatations of the antrum, the vermiform appendage, the uterus, the biliary and renal canals furnish instances of tumors resulting from the retention of secretion on a large scale.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

How many of them are there on this ship: and how many like Xantra?" antra is the only one of his kind," came the answer.

From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various

But the stolid tree—a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life—afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield




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