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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The wider end of the funnel, the pyloric antrum, connects to the body of the stomach.
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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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These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
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Sometimes the pain is referred also to the region of the antrum of Highmore and to the Eustachian tube and the middle ear.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 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
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
