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‖ vestibulum|vɛˈstɪbjʊləm|
[L.: see vestibule n.]
1. = vestibule n. 1.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 286 In the midst of the Vestibulum, there was a great Fountain. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 132 In those large Xystas, Porticos, Atrias and Vestibula of the Greeks and Romans. 1699Howe Redeemer's Dominion Wks. 1724 II. 64 Having the Keys of the Celestial House of God,..he should also have the Keys of the Terrestrial Bethel; which is but a sort of Portal or Vestibulum to the other. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. II. v. 176 In the Vestibulum of a Convent of Greek Nuns, there is a Christ very ill painted. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. iii, You enter..by a small entrance⁓passage (called vestibulum) into a hall.
2. Anat. and Zool.
a. = vestibule n. 2.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Vestibulum, is a Cavity in the Os Petrosum, behind the Finestra Ovalis. 1726A. Monro Anat. 101 Canals, that allow a Passage to the Branches of the Portio mollis of the seventh Pair of Nerves, into the Vestibulum and Cochlea. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 420 The external parts, particularly the inside of the nymphæ and the vestibulum, are subject to inflammation. 1800Phil. Trans. XC. 9 The vestibulum..is completely separated from the tympanum. 1880Günther Fishes 116 The membranous vestibulum is continued by a canal to a single opening in the roof of the skull.
b. Zool. The cavity or chamber in certain infusorians into which the œsophagus and anus open.
1859J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Protozoa 56 In addition to the oral orifice, the vestibulum is provided with a lateral aperture which would appear to discharge the function of an anus. 1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. 87 A groove [in the bell-animalcule], which, at one point, deepens and passes into a wide depression, the vestibulum. |