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noun
Atrium  n.  (pl. atria)  
1.
(Arch.)
(a)
A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(b)
An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
2.
(Anat.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
3.
(Zool.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.
4.
(Anat.) A cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, etc.





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"Atrium" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see if by chance Lady Varia might be among the feasters. Since she was kept in strictest seclusion by Eudemius, he was quite sure of not finding her, but his mood of perversity still held. On the way he met a Saxon slave, Wardo, a fair-haired, blue-eyed fellow, hurrying toward the atrium with a pierced copper bowl packed with snow for cooling wines. Him Nicanor stopped ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor


Words linked to "Atrium" :   chamber, right atrium, court, right atrium of the heart, left atrium of the heart, atrial, atrium cordis, oblique vein of the left atrium, atrium dextrum


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