Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of air cell is as below...

Air Sac :: Air sac () One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell..

Alveolus :: Alveolus (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc..

Air Cell :: Air cell () A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only..

Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..

Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs..

Interalveolar :: Interalveolar (a.) Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs..

Air Cell :: Air cell () A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects..

Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed..

Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.

Vacuole :: Vacuole (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm..

Random Fonts

Most Popular