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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will pour holy oil from an eagle-shaped ampulla, or flask, then rub it on the king’s hands, chest and head.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
For the ceremony, the oil is kept in a solid gold flask called an ampulla, shaped like an eagle.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2018
What they saw surprised them: human-looking bones and what appeared to be a broken lead ampulla – a vessel to hold holy water.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2015
The box also contained a tiny lead vial, or ampulla, that had been twisted open and was in two pieces.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2015
Ample, ampole; Latin ampulla, vessel for holding liquids.
From Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by William Caxton
Dehnhardt and his colleagues noticed the pits on the bottlenose dolphins looked a lot like ampullae on sharks, which are a line of small pores near their mouths that allow them to detect electric fields.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
And all species have something that sounds as if it came from a Harry Potter novel: ampullae of Lorenzini, receptors that respond to electrical fields, which all animals generate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
The captain, named Julia Hartl, turned on the engine to attract sharks, which have excellent hearing as well as electroreceptors on their noses, called ampullae of Lorenzini, that pick up engine impulses.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2015
The semicircular canals contain several ampullae, with some oriented horizontally and others oriented vertically.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
There are dilatations, called ampullae, at the anterior base of the anterior, and at the posterior base of the posterior and horizontal canals.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
