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cisterna

[si-stur-nuh] / sɪˈstɜr nə /
NOUN
cistern
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Proulx found something similar in 2018, when he and colleagues injected tracer dyes into the cisterna magna and found they entered the systemic blood more quickly in awake mice than anesthetized ones.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ella ruina in s� fatta cisterna; E forse pare ancor lo corpo suso Dell'ombra, che di qua dietro mi verna.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

In area aedis Studianae est cisterna, cujus lateritias cameras sustinent viginti tres columnae excelsae Corinthiae.'

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander