Ampulla

Definitions: Ampulla

Ampulla

Noun

1. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.

2. A flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils.

Specialty Definitions: Ampulla

Domain	Definitions
Health	A sac-like enlargement of a canal or duct. (references)
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Crosswords: Ampulla

English words defined with "ampulla": Ampullae, ampullar, ampullary, Ampullated. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ampulla": ampulla of Vater ♦ Bile Duct Obstruction, Extrahepatic ♦ Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde, Common Bile Duct Diseases, Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ♦ Fallopian Tubes ♦ Oddi's Sphincter ♦ Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic, Sphincterotomy, Transhepatic ♦ Vater's Ampulla. (references)

Etymologies containing "ampulla": Ampullaceous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ampulla" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (ampoule, ampul, ampule, bulb, vial), Latin (ampulla, bulb).

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Commercial Usage: Ampulla

Domain	Title
Books	Tumors of the Gallbladder, Extrahepatic Bile Ducts and Ampulla of Vater (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Ampulla

"Ampulla" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ampulla" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

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Expressions: Ampulla

Expressions using "ampulla": ampulla of Vater ♦ Vater's Ampulla. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ampulla

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ampulla	7
ampulla vater	6
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Modern Translations: Ampulla

Language		Translations for "ampulla"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		ampulla. (various references)

Dutch		ampulla (ampoule, ampule), ampul (ampoule, ampule, bulb). (various references)

French		Ampulla, ampoule (ampoule, ampule). (various references)

German		Ampulle (ampoule, ampule, phial). (various references)

Greek		λήκυθος (pavilion). (various references)

Italian		ampolla (ampoule, ampule, bulb, cruet, shell, tank, tube). (various references)

Manx		saagh ooill reeoil, saagh feeyney erin. (various references)

Pig Latin		ampullaay

Portuguese		ampola (a vesicle formed in bark or leaves by a separation and raising of the surface layers, ampoule, ampule, blister, bubble, bulb, bulging, envelope, shell, strand bulging, tank, the distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts, tube). (various references)

Romanian		fiolã (ampoule, phial, vial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ampula. (various references)

Spanish		ampolla (a vesicle formed in bark or leaves by a separation and raising of the surface layers, ampoule, ampule, bladder, bleb, bled, blister, blow, bulb, bulla, delamination, envelope, floatness, phial, shell, tank, tube). (various references)

Turkish		kutsal yağ şişesi, hacı şişesi. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Ampulla

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ampulla. (various references)
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Derivations: Ampulla

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ampulla": ampullae, ampullar, ampullary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ampulla"

Words rhyming with "ampulla" (pronounced 'Am*pul"la'): Ala, Algarovilla, Angola, Armilla, Arolla, Axilla, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Bulla, Cabrilla, Calcavella, Calla, Camarilla, Canella, Capella, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella, Codilla, Columbella, Columella, Coronilla, Fibrilla, flotilla, Fovilla, Fringilla, gala, Gentianella, gorgonzola, gorilla, granadilla, guerilla, Gula, koala, lamella, Lirella, Locustella, mammilla, mandola, mantilla, Manzanilla, Marginella. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ampulla

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-l-l-m-p-u"
	-2 letters: alula, ampul, llama, mulla, ulama.
	-3 letters: alma, alum, lama, lamp, lump, mall, maul, mull, pall, palm, plum, pula, pull, puma.
	-4 letters: aal, ala, all, alp, ama, amp, amu, lam, lap, lum, map, pal, pam, pul, ump.
	-5 letters: aa, al, am, la, ma, mu, pa, um, up.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-l-l-m-p-u"
	+1 letter: ampullae, ampullar.
	+2 letters: ampullary, palladium.
	+3 letters: palladiums.
	+4 letters: manipulable.
	+5 letters: supraliminal.
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