alveolar
Americanadjective
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Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to an alveolus or to alveoli.
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Phonetics. articulated with the tongue touching or close to the alveolar ridge, as English t, d, n; gingival.
noun
adjective
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anatomy of, relating to, or resembling an alveolus
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denoting the part of the jawbone containing the roots of the teeth
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(of a consonant) articulated with the tongue in contact with the projecting part of the jawbone immediately behind the upper teeth
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She said news that she had stage four alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma in September 2015 turned her life upside down.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue, Duong has a malignant mass blocking blood flow to his optic nerve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
"Implants require invasive surgery and good combination of implants and alveolar bone," explained Xuechen Zhang, a final year PhD student at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
Alveoli are crucialto human survival, and their health is dependent on a lipid-rich environment created by alveolar cells and sustained by macrophages.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
Laleh grew up with the ear for it—the uvular fricatives and alveolar trills that I could never get quite right.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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