Ampulla

Word AMPULLA
Character 7
Hyphenation am pul la
Pronunciations /æmˈpʊlə/

Definitions and meanings of "Ampulla"

What do we mean by ampulla?

A nearly round bottle with two handles used by the ancient Romans for wine, oil, or perfume. noun

A vessel for consecrated wine or holy oil. noun

A small dilatation in a canal or duct, especially one in the semicircular canal of the ear. noun

In Hydrocorallinæ, a pit formed in the cœnenchyma for the reception of gonophores. noun

In Roman antiquity, a bottle with a narrow neck and a body more or less nearly globular in shape, usually made of glass or earthenware, rarely of more valuable materials, and used, like the Greek aryballos, bombylios, etc., for carrying oil for anointing the body and for many other purposes. noun

2. Eccles.: In the Roman Catholic Church, a cruet, regularly made of transparent glass, for holding the wine and water used at the altar. See ama. Also written amula. A vessel for holding the consecrated oil or chrism used in various church rites and at the coronation of kings. noun

In the middle ages, a small bottle-shaped flask, often of glass, sometimes of lead, used by travelers, and especially by pilgrims. Sometimes these were used as pilgrims' signs (which see, under pilgrim). noun

4. In anat: The dilated part of the membranous semicircular canals in the ear. The enlargement of a galactophorous duct beneath the areola in the human mammary gland. Also called sinus. noun

5. In botany, a small bladder or flask-shaped organ attached to the roots or immersed leaves of some aquatic plants, as in Utricularia (which see). noun

6. In zoology: In Vermes, a terminal dilatation of the efferent seminal ducts, In Brachiopoda, one of the contractile mammillary processes of the sinuses of the pallial lobes, as in Lingula. In certain ducks, one of the chambers or dilatations of the tracheal tympanum or labyrinth. See tympanum. There may be but one ampulla, or there may be one on each side. Little used in this sense. In hydroid polyps, the cavity of a vesicular marginal body connected by a canal with the gastrovascular system. In echinoderms, one of the diverticula of the branched ambulacral canals; a sort of Polian vesicle of the ambulacral suckers noun

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug. noun

A cruet for the wine and water at Mass. noun

The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. noun

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear. noun

A Roman two-handled vessel. noun

A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil. noun

The dilated end of a duct. noun

A flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils noun

The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear noun

An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.

A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.

The dilated end of a duct.

The spongiole of a root.

Pores in a sharks nose which allow it to sense things from far away Urban Dictionary

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The word "ampulla" in example sentences

A catheter then is inserted where the bile duct opens into the intestine this is called the ampulla. ❋ Sanjiv Chopra (2001)

Each measures about 0.8 mm. in diameter, and presents a dilatation at one end, called the ampulla, which measures more than twice the diameter of the tube. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Each of these membranous canals possesses at one end, in an enlargement called the ampulla, a group of sense cells. ❋ Robert M. Yerkes (1916)

The Archbishop has the reliquary opened containing the holy ampulla, which is taken from a little chest of gold; he withdraws from it, by means of a golden needle, a particle which he mingles with the holy chrism on the patin. ❋ Arthur L��on Imbert De Saint-Amand (1867)

The advantage for pilgrims was that they could and did make their own brandea; by rubbing a piece of cloth against a holy tomb or by filling a small flask (ampulla) with holy water, they could take the holiness home with them. ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)

Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The legend relates that the holy oil used in crowning the French monarchs was brought down from Heaven by a dove bearing an ampulla at the Baptism of Clovis, the warring Salic Frank, by Bishop Remigius "Remi" at Reims on Christmas Day, A.D. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2007)

They both laughed merrily while Frances moved on to gaze upon the ampulla and spoon. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1989)

One end of each canal, where it Joins the utricle, swells out to form an ampulla (am-pul'uh; "little vase" G, because of its shape). ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

To revert to the function of the testes, we may say that during these various stages of sexual stimulation and excitement the testes are actively secreting thousands upon thousands of nascent spermatozoa, which being released, are hurried along, partly by their own flagellate movements and partly by the action of the cilia in the ducts of the epididymis and the peristaltic contractions of the vas deferens -- hurried along the vas to the ampulla. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)

If the period of sexual excitement extends over fifteen to thirty minutes, the whole duct system from the epididymis to the ampulla becomes gorged with the secreted testicular product. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)

The ampulla is an antique vessel of pure gold, used for containing the holy oil at coronations. ❋ Various (N/A)

Each bony canal contains within it a membranous canal, at the end of which it is dilated to form an _ampulla_. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

"St. Cyrus and St. John appeared to a person suffering from gout, and bade him take a little oil in a small ampulla from the lamp that burnt before the image of the Saviour, in the great tetrapyle at Alexandria, and anoint his feet with it." ❋ George Barton Cutten (N/A)

'Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα, τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

Ammone; of the Anomia ampulla in the L. occhio di Pavone, so called from the circular form of the fossils whichever way the section is made; of encrinites, belemnites, and starfish, showing white or red on ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

In this act the whole contents of the ampulla, vas deferens and ducts of the epididymis, the contents of the seminal vesicles, and the contents of the ducts of the prostate gland are all poured out by spasmotic muscular contractions into the urethra and by contraction of the walls of the urethra, ejected from that tube through the mouth of the urethra. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)

Shark1: [Do you] [sense] that? Shark2: [Yes I] do because I have ampullae of lorenzini! ❋ Bob Joe Johnny Billd (2009)

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