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Ampulla   Listen
noun
Ampulla  n.  (pl. ampullae)  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.
2.
(Eccl.)
(a)
A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.
(b)
The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.
3.
(Biol.) 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.





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"Ampulla" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, growing to the same height, thick and parallel with one another, cover the before-named disc. Some remain narrow and cylindrical, are very numerous, and produce fine hairs (paraphyses); others, also very numerous, take the form of club-like ampulla cells, and each one forms in its interior eight free swimming oval spores. Those ampulla cells are sporidiiferous asci. After the spores have become ripe, the free point of the utricle bursts, and the ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke


Words linked to "Ampulla" :   duct, ampullary, channel, epithelial duct, flask


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