Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like an ampulla; flask-shaped; bulging; dilated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Flask-shaped; dilated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape of a
flask .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have been especially interested in this subject because I have met with a complete and total glaucoma cup, with the typical (ampulliform) undermining of the scleral ring, in a pair of eyes without increased tension.
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(ampulliform) glaucomatous excavation of the disc, why may not the cavernous atrophy and cup in glaucoma be due in part at least to similar processes, possibly in the nature of a toxic oedema of the nerve, either in association with tension or independent of it, as contended for by
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(conjunctiva smoothly covers the cicatrix); (2) that represented by a subconjunctival fistulette, due to excision of the whole thickness of the sclera, in an eye with moderate tension (the conjunctiva lies smoothly over the cicatrix); (3) the fistulous cicatrix with an ampulliform elevation of the overlying conjunctiva, resulting from excision of the whole thickness of the sclera in an eye the seat of high tension.
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