What's the difference between alveolus and cavity?

Alveolus


Definition:

  • (n.) A cell in a honeycomb.
  • (n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil
  • (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, the interaction of stimulated alveolar macrophages and epithelial cells alters the eicosanoid profile produced by each cell type alone in a manner that would tend to accentuate inflammatory processes within the alveolus.
  • (2) Unilateral clefts of lip, alveolus, and palate with a partial cleft lip reveal worse malformations than complete unilateral clefts.
  • (3) These findings collectively indicated that the three antigens all have a physiological significance as stage-specific developmental antigens of the human lung; those antigens were specifically present in the bud cells at each important step of the morphogenesis of the human lung, such as cells in the lung buds, bronchial buds, and terminal buds for the formation of the alveolus, and cells differentiating into bronchial gland cells.
  • (4) Considering the functional anatomy of the lung parenchyma the pathomorphological response pattern of the alveolus has been described.
  • (5) A case of extranodal Hodgkin's disease that was limited to the maxillary alveolus has been presented.
  • (6) Only children who had both supernumerary teeth and congenitally missing teeth outside the area of the cleft alveolus were included.
  • (7) These data provide compelling evidence that the physical state of phosphatidylcholine can regulate surfactant secretion from alveolar type II cells and suggest a unique mechanism for regulating exocytosis in the alveolus of the lung.
  • (8) Since the arithmetic mean thickness of the tissue layers and of the air-blood barrier are the same in the two altitudinal groups, the average alveolus must have a smaller volume in the high-altitude mice.
  • (9) Our findings suggest that a membrane signal on AM is capable of inhibiting receptor-mediated signal transduction in lymphocytes and that this is likely a major mechanism by which immune responses are downregulated in the alveolus.
  • (10) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
  • (11) Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the 125I-SP-A present in the lavage samples or associated with lung tissue was used to show that a small proportion of the 125I-SP-A was partially degraded in the lung tissue and alveolus.
  • (12) This paper outlines the contribution of three-dimensional CT to preoperative treatment planning for bone grafting of a maxillary cleft alveolus.
  • (13) The surfactant did not change endogenous lung phosphatidylcholine synthesis or its secretion to the alveolus.
  • (14) Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is widely used in the treatment of severe pulmonary oedema, although its effects on the clearance of water and small solutes from alveolus to blood are not well characterized.
  • (15) The method involves the delivery of fresh gas to the respiratory tree during expiration, thereby flushing out the anatomic deadspace and ensuring that the gas initially delivered to the alveolus with the succeeding inspiration is able to participate in gas exchange.
  • (16) This rare malignancy occurred in the maxillary alveolus, appearing as an epulis.
  • (17) Surgical repair of the lip is done within the first 2 months of life, by the time the nose, alveolus and projecting prolabium are adequately reformed.
  • (18) These data are consistent with exogenous cholesterol being rapidly esterified in the alveolus, and the ester then being cleared by the macrophages.
  • (19) Because macrophages and epithelial cells are in close physical contact within the alveolus, we measured the eicosanoids produced by combined cultures of these cells.
  • (20) The aim of this study was to compare permanent tooth length development in children with complete unilateral clefts of the lip, alveolus, and palate (UCLP) with that of tooth length development in a normal reference population.

Cavity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hollowness.
  • (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
  • (4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
  • (10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
  • (14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
  • (15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
  • (19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
  • (20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.