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The alveolar process ( / ælˈviːələr, ˌælviˈoʊlər, ˈælviələr /) [ 1] is the portion of bone containing the tooth sockets on the jaw bones (in humans, the maxilla and the mandible ). The alveolar process is covered by gums within the mouth, terminating roughly along the line of the mandibular canal. Partially comprising compact bone ...
Cleft lip and clip palate is an "umbrella term" for a heterogeneous collection of orofacial clefts. It includes clefting of the upper lip, the maxillary alveolus (dental arch), and the hard or soft palate, in various combinations. The anatomic combinations include: [ 1] cleft lip [CL] cleft lip and alveolus [CLA]
A pulmonary alveolus ( pl.: alveoli, from Latin alveolus, "little cavity"), also known as an air sac or air space, is one of millions of hollow, distensible cup-shaped cavities in the lungs where pulmonary gas exchange takes place. [ 1] Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide at the blood–air barrier between the alveolar air and the pulmonary ...
Business and economics portal. v. t. e. CRM is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information. [ 1] CRM systems compile data from a range of different communication channels, including a company's website, telephone (which many ...
Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] The periodontal ligament, commonly abbreviated as the PDL, are a group of specialized connective tissue fibers that essentially attach a tooth to the alveolar bone within which they sit. [ 1] It inserts into root cementum on one side and onto alveolar bone on the other.
Pulmonary surfactant. Alveoli are the spherical outcroppings of the respiratory bronchioles. Pulmonary surfactant is a surface-active complex of phospholipids and proteins formed by type II alveolar cells. [ 1] The proteins and lipids that make up the surfactant have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions.
Pulmonary shunt. A pulmonary shunt is the passage of deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the left without participation in gas exchange in the pulmonary capillaries. It is a pathological condition that results when the alveoli of parts of the lungs are perfused with blood as normal, but ventilation (the supply of air) fails ...
Dental alveoli (singular alveolus) are sockets in the jaws in which the roots of teeth are held in the alveolar process with the periodontal ligament. The lay term for dental alveoli is tooth sockets. A joint that connects the roots of the teeth and the alveolus is called a gomphosis (plural gomphoses ). Alveolar bone is the bone that surrounds ...