Usually means: Hollow cavity in various organisms.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. alveus: Wordnik
  2. alveus: Wiktionary
  3. alveus: Dictionary.com
  4. Alveus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. alveus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Alveus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. alveus: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Alveus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. alveus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Alveus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. alveus: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alveus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Definitions from Wiktionary (alveus)

noun:  (construction, law) The bed or channel of a river, specifically that followed by the river flowing in its natural or ordinary course.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A thin layer of medullary nerve fibers on the ventricular surface of the hippocampus.

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