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A thick fluid, called follicular fluid, that has formed between the granulosa cells also begins to collect into one large pool, or antrum.
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The wider end of the funnel, the pyloric antrum, connects to the body of the stomach.
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Early tertiary follicles with their fluid-filled antrum will be stimulated by an increase in FSH, a gonadotropin produced by the anterior pituitary, to grow in the 28-day ovarian cycle.
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Dr. Bartlett pays more attention than many other experts to the antrum, the lower part of the stomach's rear wall, which partly controls the output of acids.
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The middle ear includes the tympanum proper, which is crossed by the chain of ossicles—malleus, incus, and stapes—the Eustachian tube, which communicates with the naso-pharynx, and the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
But the stolid tree—a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life—afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
How many of them are there on this ship: and how many like Xantra?" antra is the only one of his kind," came the answer.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
