Look up: atrium

1. Atrium
   An atrium is a square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. Originally, the entrance hall to a Roman house, the concept was adopted as an open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended...
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2. atrium
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ā′trē-ŭm, ā′trē-ă Definitions: 1. A chamber or cavity to which are connected several chambers or passageways. 2. That part of the tympanic cavity that lies immediately deep to the tympanic membrane. 3. In the lung, a subdivision of ...
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3. atrium
   An open courtyard at the entrance of a church, usually surrounded by covered aisles. The atrium of the Early Christian church was originally a place for the catechumens to wait during the celebration of the Eucharist.
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4. Atrium
   (Latin) in a Roman domus (house), the atrium was the central hall that followed the fauces, the jaws or entryway of the house, and opened into the tablinum, the reception area where guests were greeted.
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5. Atrium
   A structure that provides lots of above light for plants. Commercial buildings often have their foyer as an atrium. Many homes have built in atriums.
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6. atrium
   [n] - any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) 2. [n] - the central area in a building
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7. Atrium
   The right atrium is the upper right chamber of the heart, where blood from the body enters before flowing to the right ventricle. Similarly the left atrium is the upper left chamber, where oxygenated blood from the lungs enters and then flows to the left ventricle and thus to the rest of the body. Atria is the plural.
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8. atrium
   In architecture, an open inner courtyard. An atrium was originally the central court or main room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky, often with a shallow pool to catch rainwater. ...
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9. Atrium
   A large, glazed area in an office building designed to let light into the lower floors (small ones formerly known as light wells!). 
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10. atrium
    The hallway or quadrangular courtyard inside the front part of a Roman house. It was usually a pillared courtyard, with a central area, that was open to the sky, where the climate permitted. Visitors coming in from the street would pass through an entrance passage into this central circulating space. The atrium was the working heart of the home, wh…
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11. Atrium
    An upper smaller heart chamber
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12. Atrium
    The two upper chambers of the heart
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13. Atrium
    A cavity into which one or more other cavities open.
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14. Atrium
    Atrium: One of the two smaller chambers of the heart. Each atrium consists of an open space with recessed walls. The plural of atrium is atria. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it down into the right ventricle which then sends it to the lungs...
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15. atrium
    a cavity into which one or more cavities open Category: Medicine
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16. Atrium
    in Roman domestic architecture, an inner court open to the sky and surrounded by the roof, now often used as a general term to describe large glazed sections in buildings.
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17. atrium
    (= atria (plural)) A cavity in the body, especially either of the two upper chambers of the heart in higher vertebrates.
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18. Atrium
    A'tri·um noun ; plural Atria [ Latin , the fore court of a Roman house.] 1. (Architecture) (a) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. (b) An open court with a p...
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19. Atrium
    A'tri·um noun (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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20. atrium
    <anatomy> A chamber, used in anatomical nomenclature to designate a chamber affording entrance to another structure or organ. Usually used alone to designate an atrium of the heart. ... Origin: L., Gr. Atrion = hall ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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21. atrium
    noun any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
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22. atrium
    noun the central area in a building; open to the sky
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23. atrium
    (a´tre-әm) pl. a´tria a chamber affording entrance, especially one of the upper chambers on either side of the heart, which receive blood from the body and transmit it to the ventricles. Atria of the heart. left atrium the upper chamber of...
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24. Atrium
    • (n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. • (n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart. • (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three ...
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25. atrium
    in architecture, originally an open central court of a Roman house and later of a Christian basilica. In domestic and commercial architecture the ... [4 related articles]
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