Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy: A tube or canal through which some fluid flows; especially, the larger part of such a tube, as the duct conveying the chyle to the subclavian vein. Specifically— The utricle of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- noun The combined utricle and saccule of the ear as seen in birds.
- noun The superficial ventricular layer of medullary substance in the brain covering the hippocampus major.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The channel of a river.
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- noun The
channel of ariver .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The cold bath is much damaged, the wall only remaining of the alveus, which is square, the whole incrustation of marble being destroyed.
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The main mass of the hippocampus consists of gray substance, but on its ventricular surface is a thin white layer, the alveus, which is continuous with the fimbria hippocampi.
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The olfactory projection fibers which arise from the pyramid cells of the uncus and hippocampus and from the polymorphic cells of the dentate gyrus form a dense stratum on the ventricular surface, especially on the hippocampus, called the alveus.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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Here it lies along the concavity of the hippocampus, on the surface of which some of its fibers are spread out to form the alveus, while the remainder are continued as a narrow white band, the fimbria hippocampi, which is prolonged into the uncus of the hippocampal gyrus.
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Between the polymorphous layer and the ventricular ependyma is the white substance of the alveus.
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Pliny (vol.vi. p. 29) says that the canal which united the two seas was navigable, (alveus navigabilis.)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Atque illum in praeceps prono rapit alveus an Fraeterea, tam funt Arduri iidera nobis,
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Since the most common cause of chronic constipation, internal sluggishness and uncleanliness, is known, too much cannot be said in condemnation of the wide-spread abuse of "liver and atony persuaders" and the use of irritating suppositories and dilating bougies, candles, etc. The numerous and various drastic purgative nostrums -- which literally fill our medical literature -- and the universal demand for them, are evidence of this very common disease, which disease is rendered worse by the drugs taken for the relief of a foul intestinal alveus.
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& ejciens ex eo alveus m Pontum 9 ft praeterea Anticites
Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782
biocon commented on the word alveus
OED: alevus means the bed or channel or a river; the trough of the sea.
January 13, 2012