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ANTRUM (antra)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antrum mean? 

ANTRUM (noun)
  The noun ANTRUM has 1 sense:

1. a natural cavity or hollow in a boneplay

  Familiarity information: ANTRUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANTRUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural cavity or hollow in a bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("antrum" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)


 Context examples 


Surgical creation of an opening into the maxillary antrum.

(Maxillary Antrostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Cholesteatoma of the middle ear, usually associated with chronic infection, and commonly affecting the tympanum, epitympanum, and antrum.

(Middle Ear Cholesteatoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It occurs in the antrum and pyloric region and it may extend into the duodenum.

(Gastric Plexiform Fibromyxoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Gastric lipomas occur as solitary lesions most frequently in the antrum.

(Gastric Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of the gastric antrum.

(Gastric Antrectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Dilatation of the vessels in the antrum of the stomach.

(Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, NCI Thesaurus)



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