antrum

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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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This degradation of the wall, combined with pressure from the large, fluid-filled antrum, results in the expulsion of the oocyte surrounded by granulosa cells into the peritoneal cavity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

A thick fluid, called follicular fluid, that has formed between the granulosa cells also begins to collect into one large pool, or antrum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first is met with in relation to epithelioma of a mucous surface—for example, the palate, tongue, gums, antrum, frontal sinus, auditory meatus, or middle ear.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis