The light from the Proteus penetrated through what seemed to him a vast thickness of tissue and in its muted intensity, the alveolus was a tremendous cavern, with walls that glinted moistly and distantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

Grant said, "I'm going to get it up through now, into the alveolus.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

Elizabeth you siren me, coriander. glasswort you alveolus me, chocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spam, Spam, Spam and Spoetry] Reference

He had reached the top of the alveolus and had moved into the tubular stalk from which it was suspended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

Blood gases are excreted by passive diffusion from the blood into the alveolus, following a concentration gradient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excretion of toxicants] Reference

Especially dangerous is air-transmittable stone dust, which can cut the pulmonary alveolus in the lungs when inhaled.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1 Safety kit] Reference

At the end of each bronchiole are tiny sacs called alveoli, each one of them lined with a thin layer of fluid that keeps each alveolus open.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Raising Your Child] Reference

On an ordinary scale, he knew, the air current in the alveolus was indetectably gentle but on the miniaturised scale, it was gathering into a tornado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

The commercial ethylchlorid, which is obtained in tubes, is then directed both upon the labial and lingual side of the alveolus of the tooth to be extracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dentistry] Reference

When a fertilized egg is laid by the queen bee in an ordinary alveolus and the larva is fed with standard food, a small, sterile female, a worker bee, is born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science's Awesome Frontier] Reference

But when an egg with a similar genetic code is laid in a larger alveolus and the larva is fed a special food -- the royal jelly -- the resulting insect is a queen bee, a larger, fertile female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science's Awesome Frontier] Reference

Length of face from 1st to last molar alveolus 178 171 150.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Red cell moving out of the capillary lumen (c) into an alveolus (a).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A dental plate should be fitted to fill up the gap in the alveolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Limited portions of the alveolus are frequently broken in the extraction of teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The inner surface of each alveolus is lined with a layer of moist epithelial cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The inflammation begins close to the alveolus, and may spread back along the palate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

A muco-purulent discharge escapes from within the free edge of the gum and alveolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The periodontal ligament, shape of the tooth, and corresponding shape of the alveolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheHorse.com News] Reference

The true secreting cells which line the wall of the alveolus are very characteristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

Each alveolus is composed of a transparent basement membrane, enclosing a number of epithelial cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument] Reference

The treatment consists in removing not only the hypertrophied gums, but also the affected alveolus (Heath).    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

In dorsal view the first tooth alveolus is small and quadrangular in shape with the antero-labial face longest.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The margins of the cleft in the lip are also attached to the alveolus by firm reflections of the mucous membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Oxygen then diffuses into a web of capillaries surrounding each alveolus and enters red blood cells, binding to hemoglobin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In some animals spindle-shaped cells occupy the center of the alveolus and are known as the centroacinar cells of Langerhans.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas] Reference

They really originate in the periosteum of the alveolus or in the periodontal membrane, and are essentially of the nature of fibro-sarcoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The peripheral cells of the alveolus remain, and form a single layer of granular, short columnar cells, with spherical nuclei, lining the basement membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3d. 6. The Mammæ] Reference

The inner surface of the intermaxillary bone and the opposing surface of the receding alveolus of the other side are freshened by slicing off the mucous covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference

Slide 72: I NDI CATI ONS  Superficial / Accessible tumors  Skin ca  Post mastectomy recurrence  Oral tumor  hard palate, alveolus  Penile carcinoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

—Each tooth consists of three portions: the crown, projecting above the gum; the root, imbedded in the alveolus; and the neck, the constricted portion between the crown and root.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth] Reference

"I watched her when you were lost in the alveolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

Michaels said, "When you get to the alveolus, be careful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

Then we close the forceps, and that breaks right through the alveolus -- that's the part of the socket in the jaw, you understand. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [McTeague] Reference

18 tooth loci; alveolus 1 quadrangular; alveoli 2-6 and 12-15 circular; alveoli 7-11 and 16-18 labio-lingually compressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference