Definition of Alveolar bed

1. Noun. Lung tissue densely packed with alveoli.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alveolar Bed

alvelous
alveoalgia
alveola
alveolalgia
alveolar
alveolar-arterial oxygen difference
alveolar abscess
alveolar adenocarcinoma
alveolar air
alveolar angle
alveolar arch
alveolar arch of mandible
alveolar arch of maxilla
alveolar artery
alveolar atrophy
alveolar bed (current term)
alveolar body
alveolar bone
alveolar bone loss
alveolar bones
alveolar border
alveolar canals
alveolar cell
alveolar cell carcinoma
alveolar consonant
alveolar crest
alveolar dead space
alveolar duct
alveolar duct emphysema
alveolar ectasia

Literary usage of Alveolar bed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"... and the fraction of inspired air reaching the alveolar bed was found to be lower with increasing age in spontaneously breathing dogs (Mauderly, l974, ..."

2. A Manual of the Practice of Surgery by William Fairlie Clarke (1879)
"Colloid or gum cancer consists of an alveolar bed, formed of fibrous tissues arranged in large circular outlines, and filled up with semi-transparent mucoid ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women by Samuel Ashwell (1855)
"Has the appearance of particles of jelly inlaid in a regular alveolar bed. The contained matter is strikingly transparent. ..."

4. A manual of the practice of surgery by William Fairlie Clarke (1880)
"Colloid or gum cancer consists of an alveolar bed, formed of fibrous tissues arranged in large circular outlines, and filled up with semi-transparent mucoid ..."

5. The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and Treatment of Cancer by Walter Hayle Walshe, Jonathan Mason Warren (1844)
"... Ha« a semi-transparent The contained matter is brous septa. regular alveolar bed. Is of dead white color. Has a clear whiti«h or blu- Greenish yellow id ..."

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