alveolus vs calyx

alveolus

noun
  • An acinus (saclike cavity) in a gland. 

  • The socket of a macrotrichium (seta). 

  • Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs in which the bronchioles terminate and where oxygen and carbon dioxide are rapidly exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries. 

  • The bony socket in which the root of a tooth resides. 

calyx

noun
  • The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians. 

  • A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes. 

  • The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. 

  • A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects. 

  • A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects. 

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