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Ampulla

noun
(pl. ampullae)
1.
The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
2.
A flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils.



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... to modern ideas, begins in front of the third piece of the sacrum; formerly the last part of the O (or omega) loop was described as its first part. It ends in a dilatation or rectal ampulla, which is in contact with the back of the prostate in the male and of the vagina in the female and is in front of the tip of the coccyx. The rectum is not straight, as its name would imply, but has a concavity forward corresponding to ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... 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 spores are scattered to a great distance ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke


Words linked to "Ampulla" :   ampullary, body part, ampullar, canal, flask, duct, epithelial duct, channel


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