Look up: crypt

1. Crypt
   A crypt was originally a subterranean cell or cave, especially one constructed for sepulchre, the term is now used for a chamber or compartment under a church or public building. In early Christian churches it was usually built to hold a saint's tomb or the relics of saints. A crypt is usually set a...
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2. Crypt
   [anatomy] Crypts are anatomical structures that are narrow but deep invaginations into a larger structure. One common type of anatomical crypt is the Crypts of Lieberkühn. However, it is not the only type: some types of tonsils also have crypts. Because these crypts allow external access to...
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3. Crypt
   [Unix] In Unix computing, crypt is the name of both a utility program and a C programming function. Though both are used for encrypting data, they are otherwise essentially unrelated. To distinguish between the two, writers often refer to the utility program as crypt(1), because it is docume...
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4. crypt
   An underground chamber for relics or tombs.
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5. Crypt
   A vaulted chamber made to house graves and relics, generally located beneath the chancel. Many crypts were very large, to allow numbers of pilgrims access.
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6. crypt
   [n] - a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
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7. Crypt
   Underground room, usually at E end of church.
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8. Crypt
   Area underneath a church.
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9. crypt
   an underground, or semi-underground area, usually at the east end of a church
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10. crypt
    In architecture, a vaulted structure under a church used for burial. The first crypts were subterranean chapels in the catacombs. They were most common between the 6th and 13th centuries. One of the...
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11. Crypt
    A small underground chamber that might be constructed, as a part of a chapel or monastery. These were used for the display of relics belonging to, or of, a saint or as a burial vault for members of a wealthy family. These include Hexham Abbey and Bamburgh Church, Northumberland, of the two types given above.
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12. Crypt
    The vaulted chamber below the sanctuary or eastern arm of a church; usually at least partly underground. In monastic and secular buildings it is called an undercroft.
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13. Crypt
    Crypt: In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression, or a pit -- in an otherwise fairly flat surface. Cryptic in the case of the tonsils refer to the tonsillar crypts which are little pitlike depressions in the tonsils. The words crypt and cryptic come from the G...
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14. crypt
    1.a small pitlike depression; 2.a glandular cavity Category: The cosmos
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15. Crypt
    A crypt is a chamber beneath the main floor of a church, usually containing graves or relics. It is typically vaulted, and wholly or partly underground. In medieval churches, it was usually under the apse.
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16. crypt
    Deep pit that protrudes down into the connective tissue surrounding the small intestine. The epithelium at the base of the crypt is the site of stem cell proliferation and the differentiated cells move upwards and are shed 3-5 days later at the tips of the villi.
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17. Crypt
    Crypt (krĭpt) noun [ Latin crypta vault, crypt, Greek kry`pth , from kry`ptein to hide. See Grot , Grotto .] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether...
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18. crypt
    <pathology> Deep pit that protrudes down into the connective tissue surrounding the small intestine. The epithelium at the base of the crypt is the site of stem cell proliferation and the differentiated cells move upwards and are shed 3-5 days later at the tips of the villi. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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19. crypt
    noun a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
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20. crypt
    (kript) a blind pit or tube on a free surface. anal crypts furrows, with pouchlike recesses at the lower end, separating the rectal columns; called also anal sinuses. crypts of Lieberkühn intestinal glands on the surface of the intestinal mucous membrane. ...
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21. Crypt
    • (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. • (n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
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22. crypt
    vault or subterranean chamber, usually under a church floor. In Latin, crypta designated any vaulted building partially or entirely below the ground ...
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23. crypt
    crypt, cryptal 1. A hidden vault. 2. Various recesses, glandular cavities, etc. in the body; such as, tonsillar crypts.
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24. Crypt
    In architecture, a crypt (from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē; meaning concealed, private) is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics. Originally crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church,...
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25. Crypt
    Underground chamber or vault, usually beneath the presbytery of a church and used for burial or sometimes as an oratory.
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