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Webster 1913 Edition

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(ăl-vē′ō̍-lŭs)

Noun.

;

pl.

Alveoli

(-lī)

[L., a small hollow or cavity, dim. of

alveus

: cf. F.

alvéole

. See

A cell in a honeycomb.

(Zool.)

A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil

(Anat.)

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

Noun.

[L. dim of alveus.]

A cell in a bee hive, or in a fossil.

The socket in the jaw, in which a tooth is fixed.

A sea fossil of a conic figure, composed of a number of cells, like bee-hives, joined by a pipe of communication.