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  • Here is a quote from the book, St Anne, Grandmother of Our Saviour about what ancient symbol was found near the body of St Anne: St Anne's body was then placed in an opening in the wall excavated from a subterranean gallery known as the Antrum Antiquum, which had originally been a branch of the catacombs.

    St Anne, "Flowering, Fruitful Rod of Jesse" aussieannie 2009

  • _Antrum_, therefore, meant originally what is within or inside the earth or anything else.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • The Maxillary Sinus or Antrum of Highmore (sinus maxillaris).

    II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw) 1918

  • Antrum, the despised carpet-bagger for Machlin & Company, or had taken his instructions at first hand from the great Machlin himself, was in the eighties an open question in Dinwiddie.

    Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Frontal Sinus to the Antrum_, was read before the American Dental

    Resonance in Singing and Speaking Thomas Fillebrown 1872

  • And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • _Antrum_ duplicatum, 1-loculare, superne apertum, pericarpiis osseis intus nidulantibus.

    The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

  • We observed a long _Antrum_ or Cavity in the _Sinciput_, that was filled with Ribbons, Lace and Embroidery, wrought together in a most curious

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Antrum: a cavity appears within the membrana granulosa.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows saktivinayaga 2010

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