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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



... 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 ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten


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


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