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Definitions of ampulla in various dictionaries:
noun - the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear
noun - a flask that has two handles
A nearly round bottle with two handles used by the ancient Romans for wine, oil, or perfume.
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| a widened area of tube in the body, especially the canals of the ear |
| a roughly spherical Roman flask with two handles. |
| A roughly spherical Roman flask with two handles. |
| A cavity, or the dilated end of a vessel, shaped like a Roman ampulla. |
| a flask that has two handles used by Romans for wines or oils |
| the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear |
| A nearly round bottle with two handles used by the ancient Romans for wine, oil, or perfume. |
| Ecclesiastical A vessel for consecrated wine or holy oil. |
| Anatomy A small dilatation in a canal or duct, especially one in the semicircular canal of the ear. |
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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 flasks, often handle-less and much flatter, for holy water or holy oil in the Middle Ages, often bought as souvenirs of pilgrimages, such as the metal Monza ampullae of the 6th century. Materials include glass, ceramics and metal. Unguentarium is a term for a bottle believed to have been used to store perfume, and there is considerable overlap between the two terms, one defined by shape and the other by purpose. * The glass Holy Ampulla was part of the French coronation regalia and believed to have divine origins. Similar, but far more recent, is the Ampulla in the British regalia, 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. The Danish ampulla, used during the king's anointing in the period |