antrum
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Cells that make up the pyloric antrum secrete mucus and a number of hormones, including the majority of the stimulatory hormone, gastrin.
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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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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.
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Dr. Bartlett pays more attention than many other experts to the antrum, the lower part of the stomach's rear wall, which partly controls the output of acids.
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As a rule, however, it is necessary to expose the interior of the antrum by opening through the mastoid cells—Schwartze's operation.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
