in Natural History, the name of the waxen cells in bee-hives. Also the name of a sea shell of a conic figure, composed of a number of cells like bee-hives, joined into each other with a pipe of communication.

in Anatomy, the sockets in the jaws wherein the teeth are fixed. Some writers speak of teeth growing without alveoli. Pliny mentions a person who had a tooth in his palate. Eustachius relates, that he saw a man who at 60 had a tooth growing out of the middle of his fauces. Holler gives an instance of a person whose teeth were of a piece with his jaws, without any insertion into alveoli.