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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will pour holy oil from an eagle-shaped ampulla, or flask, then rub it on the king’s hands, chest and head.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

For the ceremony, the oil is kept in a solid gold flask called an ampulla, shaped like an eagle.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2018

What they saw surprised them: human-looking bones and what appeared to be a broken lead ampulla – a vessel to hold holy water.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2015

The box also contained a tiny lead vial, or ampulla, that had been twisted open and was in two pieces.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2015

And above all, if he were king without a coronation, and without the oil from the sacred ampulla, what advantage was yet open to him by celerity above his competitor the English boy?

From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

Dehnhardt and his colleagues noticed the pits on the bottlenose dolphins looked a lot like ampullae on sharks, which are a line of small pores near their mouths that allow them to detect electric fields.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023

And all species have something that sounds as if it came from a Harry Potter novel: ampullae of Lorenzini, receptors that respond to electrical fields, which all animals generate.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

The captain, named Julia Hartl, turned on the engine to attract sharks, which have excellent hearing as well as electroreceptors on their noses, called ampullae of Lorenzini, that pick up engine impulses.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2015

The semicircular canals contain several ampullae, with some oriented horizontally and others oriented vertically.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

D—Ampullae likewise placed in sand which is contained in a box, of which the spouts from the opercula extend crosswise into ampullae placed under them.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola