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AIR-FILLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does air-filled mean?
• AIR-FILLED (adjective)
The adjective AIR-FILLED has 1 sense:
1. full of air
Familiarity information: AIR-FILLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of air
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Context examples
Air-filled extensions of the respiratory part of the nasal cavity into the frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, and maxillary cranial bones.
(Paranasal sinus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An air-filled cavity adjacent to the nasal cavity lined by a mucous membrane and located in the bones of the skull.
(Paranasal sinus, NCI Thesaurus)
A pyramidal-shaped, thin-walled, air-filled cavity located in the maxilla.
(Maxillary sinus, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of an air-filled sac within the laryngeal wall which may bulge on the neck.
(Laryngocele, NCI Thesaurus)
The middle ear is made up of an air-filled cavity behind the tympanic membrane that contains the ossicles (malleus, incus and stapes).
(Ear, NCI Thesaurus)
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