Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of the cavities in the leaves, stems, or other parts of plants, containing air.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a definite circumscribed cavity in the body, containing atmospheric air inhaled through air-passages which place it in direct communication with the outer air.
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Examples
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How then can the air in any air-cell be kept at a higher tension than the surrounding atmosphere?
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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It brings into play the entire respiratory apparatus, every part of the lungs, every air-cell, every respiratory muscle.
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath William Walker Atkinson 1897
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It should be diaphragmatic; that is, with the expansion of the sides of the lower part of the chest, thus filling every air-cell and bringing the life-giving oxygen to the blood.
What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874
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Now breathe in slowly until every air-cell is full.
What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874
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How then can the air in any air-cell be kept at a higher tension than the surrounding atmosphere?
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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After being moulded, the loaves should stand usually not over ten minutes, just long enough to allow the fermentation going on in them to expand each little air-cell to the point at which it stood before it was worked down, and then they should be immediately put into the oven.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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In this passage of the blood through these capillaries, the air in the air-cell imparts its oxygen to the blood, and receives in exchange carbonic acid and watery vapor.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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The lining membrane of each air-cell is covered by a network of minute blood-vessels called
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Every air-cell has a blood-vessel that brings blood from the heart, which meanders through its capillaries till it reaches another blood-vessel that carries it back to the heart, as seen in Fig. 26.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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The humoral asthma has but one remote cause, which is the torpor of the pulmonary vessels, like that which occurs on going into the cold bath; or the want of absorption of the pulmonary lymphatics to take up the lymph effused into the air-cell.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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