Ampulla

[am-puV-ah) [L., a Roman wine jug]. The trumpet-mouthed or dilated extremity ofa canal, as of the lachrymal canal, the receptaculum chyli, the Fallopian tubes, mammary ducts, semicircular canals, vas de- AMPUTATION ferens, etc. A. Chyli, the receptaculum chyli. A., Lieberkuhn’s, the cecal terminus of one of the lacteals in the villi of the intestines. A. of Rectum, the portion above the perineal flexure. A. of Vater, the site of entrance of the common bile-duct and pancreatic duct into the duodenum. 52