vestibulumn.
/vɛˈstɪbjʊləm/ 1. = vestibule n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > fore-court
vestiary1382
fore-yard1420
forecourt1535
vestibule1623
foregartha1642
antecourt1659
vestibulum1662
frontstead1688
frontcourt1749
paepae1919
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 286 In the midst of the Vestibulum, there was a great Fountain.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 132 Those large Xystas, Porticos, Atrias and Vestibula of the Greeks and Romans.
1699 J. Howe Disc. Redeemer's Dominion Ded. 25 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.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant II. v. 176 In the Vestibulum of a Convent of Greek Nuns, there is a Christ very ill painted.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. iii. 33 You enter..by a small entrance passage (called vestibulum) into a hall.
2. Anatomy and Zoology.
a. = vestibule n. 2.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > other cavities
window1615
vestibulum1704
vestibule1728
navicular fossa1802
saccule1836
utricle1837
membranous vestibule1842
fenestra1844
utriculus1847
the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva > vestibule
vestibulum1800
vestibule1841
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Vestibulum, is a Cavity in the Os Petrosum, behind the Finestra Ovalis.
1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 101 Canals, that allow a Passage to the Branches of the Portio mollis of the seventh Pair of Nerves, into the Vestibulum and Cochlea.
1793 M. Baillie Morbid. Anat. xxiii. 286 The external parts, particularly the inside of the nymphæ, and the vestibulum, are subject to inflammation.
1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 9 The vestibulum..is completely separated from the tympanum.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 116 The membranous vestibulum is continued by a canal to a single opening in the roof of the skull.
b. Zoology. The cavity or chamber in certain infusorians into which the œsophagus and anus open.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > [noun] > member of > parts of > cavity
vestibulum1859
vestibule1875
1859 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom I. 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.
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 87 A groove [in the bell-animalcule], which, at one point, deepens and passes into a wide depression, the vestibulum.
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