Meaning of alveary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
2. The hollow of the external ear.
3. A repository, especially of knowledge or information.

Examples

“The value of an alveary or hive was 4d, and a swarm on a tree was recognised as free for the taking.”

“The effects of the hydriatic treatment upon inflammations of the brain are elimination of the matter of disease, partly through perspiration and eruptions on the head, but more through abnormal secretions from the alvearies or hollows of the ears, and from the nostrils (catarrh); oftentimes these secretions have quite an abnormal color and acridness.”

“In otoscopy alveary narrowed due to the omission of his caudineural wall.”

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“I had to look up "alvearium", not a common term. I was pointed toward "alveary", a word with two intriguingly different definitions: first, a beehive, or something resembling a beehive and second, the hollow of the external ear. Apian aspects don't leap out at one here, so I'm going with the latter meaning, thinking of these sounds flowing around my own alvearies.”

“In the article the results of researches are presented on the determination of the composition of microflora of the alveary of dogs with the clinical signs of sharp outward otopyosis and the character of clinical-hematological changes of this disease.”

“Outward inflammations of the ear for cats more often flows with hyperemia of alveary – 80.8%, by a sickliness during palpation of base of the ear – 74.4% and accompanied by the selection of to the exsudate - 70.2%.”

“They married the proprietors of the great empty alvearies, filled these with seed, and obtained, in return, titles and crowns, which were the baubles of which they had ever been dreaming.”

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