Ampullae

Sharks are equipped with organs on the underside of their snouts - gel filled pits called ampullae of Lorenzini - that allow them to detect electromagnetic fields from their intended food, Burgess said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are dilatations, called ampullae, at the anterior base of the anterior, and at the posterior base of the posterior and horizontal canals. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The tiny, jelly-filled capsules, called ampullae of Lorenzini, are sensitive to electrical discharge as minute as .005 microvolts. ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2010)

Humans (unlike sharks with their ampullae of lorenzini that detect magnetic fields) have 5-senses. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

But when you get thousands of ampulls ampullae missing -Hilleary: Were they missing? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Legend surrounds the ampullae used to hold the holy oils used, in addition to the oil of catechumens, in coronating Clovis as well as all later monarchs of France. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2007)

Grosses woven from strips of palm branch; lead ampullae filled with the water in which Jesus was baptised, or with the dust from the ground he had trodden. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)

Once this movement begins, the sperm is pumped forward, from the epididymis and the ampullae a depotlike area in which some sperm is stored through the entire vas deferens. ❋ Niels H. Lauersen (2000)

In Figure 7 the ampullae of the three canals are marked respectively, ampulla anterior, ampulla posterior, and ampulla externa. ❋ Robert M. Yerkes (1916)

In the dancer the cupola of the crista acustica is not so plainly marked and not so highly developed, and the raphae of the ampullae and canals, which frequently are clearly visible in the gray mouse, are lacking (21 p. 478). ❋ Robert M. Yerkes (1916)

The semicircular canals, the ampullae, the utriculus, and the cristae acusticae of the canals are normal in their general form and relations to one another as well as in their histological conditions (2 p. 529). ❋ Robert M. Yerkes (1916)

Forrer has brought to light ampullae of terracotta, clay, and bronze, also jewels and toilet articles of gold or ivory. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

These vases are designated as flagons, ampullae, estuy, and phialae, and the cabinet containing them is known as the chrismatorium, chrismate, cresmeau, and coresmier. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

During the Mass two clerics of lesser rank stood before the altar holding the ampullae. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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