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ontelo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • atrium noun A large open central hall or courtyard in a building, often glass-roofed.
  • hollow noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
  • lumen noun The standard unit for measuring the total amount of visible light emitted by a source.
  • sinus noun One of the air-filled cavities in the skull, especially around the nose, that connect to the nasal passages.
  • socket noun A hollow opening designed to hold or receive a matching part, such as an electrical plug or a light bulb.

Senses

ontelo is used for these senses in English:

  • atrium (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
  • coelenteron The body cavity of a coelenterate.
  • hollow An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
  • sinus (anatomy, zootomy) A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
  • socket (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
  • syrinx (neurology, pathology) Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.

atrium — full definition

  1. noun A large open central hall or courtyard in a building, often glass-roofed.
  2. noun (anatomy) One of the upper chambers of the heart that receives blood before it passes to a ventricle.

hollow — full definition

  1. noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
  2. noun An empty space or cavity inside something.
  3. adj Having an empty space inside; not solid.
  4. adj Insincere or lacking real meaning or substance.
  5. verb To dig or carve out a hole or cavity in something.

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