alveus

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

alvei

1.
(rare, usually)(rare, now usually law) The bed or channel of a river, especially when the river is flowing in its natural or ordinary course; (also) the trough of the sea.
2.
(neuroanatomy) A thin layer of medullary nerve fibers on the ventricular surface of the hippocampus.

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Borrowed from Latin alveus. late 17th century in an earlier sense.