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Alveolar

adjective

Pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs.

Pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw.

noun

A consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge. Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant.

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... malignant tumor after the type of embryonal tissue, and consists of several varieties, such as the round cell, spindle cell, giant cell, alveolar, and melanosarcoma. They grow by preference in connective tissue and are quite vascular. Sarcomas appear either as single or multiple nodules, varying in size from a hempseed to a hazelnut, or else as a moderate number of tumors of the size of hen eggs. Their surface, at first smooth, later becomes ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... most elementary principles of mechanical construction of the cell are still matters of controversy. On the one hand, it is held by Professor O. Butschli and his followers that the substance of the typical cell is essentially alveolar, or foamlike, comparable to an emulsion, and that the observed reticular structure of the cell is due to the intersections of the walls of the minute ultimate globules. But another equally authoritative school of workers holds to the view, first expressed by Frommann and Arnold, that ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams