AMPULLA - 2 reference results
An Ampulla (plural "ampullae") was, in Ancient Rome, a "small nearly globular flask or bottle, with two handles" (OED). The word is used of these in archaeology, and of later, often handle-less flasks for holy water or holy oil in the Middle Ages, often bought as souvenirs of pilgrimages.
- Part of the British Crown Jewels is the Ampulla, a hollow, gold, eagle-shaped vessel from which the anointing oil is poured by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the anointing of a new British sovereign at their coronation.
Medicine and science
- By extension, in scientific contexts, it may mean a dilated segment in a tubular structure. It is used to describe several anatomical structures:
- Ampullae of Lorenzini
- ampulla of uterine tube
- ampulla of ductus deferens
- hepatopancreatic ampulla
- rectal ampulla
- osseous ampullae
- Ampullae are also bulb-like structures above the tube feet in echinoderms.
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