How to pronounce “alveus”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (rare, now usually law) The bed or channel of a river, especially when the river flowing in its natural or ordinary course; (also) the trough of the sea.
• (neuroanatomy) A thin layer of medullary nerve fibers on the ventricular surface of the hippocampus.

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