vestibules

Noun

vestibule (plural vestibules)

1. A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.
   • Near-synonym: foyer

   Synonyms:

   foyer

   1. A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
   2. An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
      • The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.1912, Electric Railway Journal, volume XL, number 14, page 556
2. Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
   • The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.1838, Joseph Garland, “Formation of the Ear”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 17, page 333
   1. The central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the parts (such as the saccule and utricle) of the membranous labyrinth that it contains.
   2. The part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice.

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