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alveolar

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alveolar [al′vē·ə·lər]
(biology)
Of or relating to an alveolus.


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Effective countermeasures against alveolar echinococcosis in the red fox population of Hokkaido, Japan.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a medical condition of unknown etiology with poor prognosis in which progressive fibrosis of the alveolar walls produces irreversible "honeycomb lung", in which a high-resolution CT scan of the lung yields a honeycomb pattern.
Histologically, the tumor is characterized by a biphasic tumor cell population in a trabecular, tubular, or alveolar arrangement (figure, A).
 
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