antrum
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antra
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Origin of antrum
1720–30; < Latin < Greek ántron cave
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This degradation of the wall, combined with pressure from the large, fluid-filled antrum, results in the expulsion of the oocyte surrounded by granulosa cells into the peritoneal cavity.
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
Cells that make up the pyloric antrum secrete mucus and a number of hormones, including the majority of the stimulatory hormone, gastrin.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toothache--St Vitus dance, Epilepsy, Fevers, diseases of the eye, nose, antrum, throat, muscles, cholera, all diseases of the skin, face, &c.
From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter
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
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