antrum
IPA: ˈæntrʌm
noun
- (biology) A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses.
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Examples of "antrum" in Sentences
- It is somewhat conical with its base applied to the upper orifice of the stomach, and is known as the antrum cardiacum.
- Normal biopsies from the gastric antrum were very rare, but I eventually found 20 examples, and none showed the bacteria.
- With experience, I found the same features in the mucosa from the corpus, usually much more mild, superficial and focal than the antrum.
- The entrance to the antrum is a large irregular aperture, which leads backward from the epitympanic recess into a considerable air space, named the tympanic or mastoid antrum (see page 142).
- I'm not sure what happens when an antrum washout is performed spontaneously, even on the spur of the moment and in anger shall we say, using a left oblique italic nib via a Mont Blanc pen tanked up with a nice permanent black
- On the medial wall of the entrance to the antrum is a rounded eminence, situated above and behind the prominence of the facial canal; it corresponds with the position of the ampullated ends of the superior and lateral semicircular canals.
- When I scrubbed in ENT theatres it used to be called an antrum washout but probably has a completely new and fancy name now, like post-nasal irrigational lavage or something but William Hague was entirely thankful to have his done by this method whilst he was Prime Minister
- The stomach wall can be pushed by the tube into almost any position, and with the aid of gentle external abdominal manipulation to draw over the pylorus it is possible to examine directly almost all of the gastric walls except the pyloric antrum, which is reachable in relatively few cases.
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