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antrum

noun as in sinus

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That similarity allowed the researchers to use the tiny stomachs as test subjects for human disease by injecting them with Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that targets the antrum and can cause ulcers and stomach cancer.

From Nature

Unfortunately, Wells and his team of researchers were only able to grow part of the human stomach: the lower end, which goes by the name of "antrum" and connects to the intestine.

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.

I found the tumor occupying the whole of the antrum.

The antrum may be entirely wanting, as in Fig.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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