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

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A thick fluid, called follicular fluid, that has formed between the granulosa cells also begins to collect into one large pool, or antrum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In poetry the Ablative of Quality sometimes denotes material; as,— scopulīs pendentībus antrum, a cave of arching rocks.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)