antrum
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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
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.
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A thick fluid, called follicular fluid, that has formed between the granulosa cells also begins to collect into one large pool, or antrum.
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These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
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A cave in Latin is called antrum, cavea, spelunca.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
