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ves⋅ti⋅bule

  [ves-tuh-byool] noun, verb, -buled, -bul⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
2. Railroads. an enclosed space at the end of a passenger car, serving as a sheltered entrance to the car from another car or from outside the train.
3. Anatomy, Zoology. any of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another cavity or space, as that of the internal ear.
–verb (used with object)
4. to provide with a vestibule.
Origin:
1615–25; < L vestibulum forecourt, entrance
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ves·ti·bule   (věs'tə-byōōl')   
n.  

  1. A small entrance hall or passage between the outer door and the interior of a house or building.

  2. An enclosed area at the end of a passenger car on a railroad train.

  3. Anatomy A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity: the vestibule to the ear.


[Latin vestibulum.]
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Word Origin & History

vestibule 
1623, "a porch," later "antechamber, lobby" (1730), from Fr. vestible, from L. vestibulum "forecourt, entrance," of unknown origin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: ves·ti·bule
Pronunciation: 'ves-t&-"byül
Function: noun
: any of various bodily cavities especially when serving as orresembling an entrance to some other cavity or space: as a (1) : the central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the ear (2) : the parts of the membranous labyrinth comprising theutricle and the saccule and contained in the cavity of the bony labyrinth b : the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra c : the part ofthe left ventricle of the heart immediately below the aortic orifice d : the part of the mouth cavity outside the teeth and gums
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vestibule ves·ti·bule (věs'tə-by&oomacr;l')
n.
A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity, especially that of the ear.

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