Definitions for antrum

antrum an·trum

Spelling: [an-truh m]
IPA: /ˈæn trəm/

Antrum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in antrum (amnrtu).

Definitions for antrum

noun

  1. a cavity in a body organ, especially a bone.

Origin of antrum

1720-30; Latin Greek ántron cave

Examples for antrum

It is rarely possible to enter the antrum through its natural ostium.

The antrum pyloricum is small and not very distinctly marked.

We found that the tumor did extend from the antrum, into which I could bore my finger easily.

If the posterior wall or roof of the antrum is destroyed, intra-cranial complications are liable to ensue.

antrum duplicatum, 1-loculare, superne apertum, pericarpiis osseis intus nidulantibus.

antrum, therefore, meant originally what is within or inside the earth or anything else.

As a result of this free incision, drainage is given to the contents of the tympanic cavity, attic, and antrum.

The chief advance in aural surgery in recent years has been in the surgery of the mastoid process and antrum.

It was somewhat striking that I never observed any trouble, immediate or remote, from these perforations of the antrum.

In my opinion, however, it is always wiser in such cases to open the antrum.

Word Value for antrum
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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