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A flask of glass or earthenware having a somewhat globular body and two handles and used especially by the ancient Romans to hold ointment, perfume, or wine. (plural)

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  • Humans (unlike sharks with their ampullae of lorenzini that detect magnetic fields) have 5-senses.
  • The tiny, jelly-filled capsules, called ampullae of Lorenzini, are sensitive to electrical discharge as minute as .005 microvolts.
  • Once this movement begins, the sperm is pumped forward, from the epididymis and the ampullae a depotlike area in which some sperm is stored through the entire vas deferens.
  • Those most numerous at present are the "ampullae of St. Menas".
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