ampulla

Examples

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• They simply perch by the female decorated cricket, which begins to curl her abdomen forward to remove the gummy collar from the ampulla.

  Academic text (1991)

• Since it takes about fifty minutes for the ampulla to be emptied, a spermatophylax must be large enough to take about fifty minutes to eat.

  Academic text (1991)

• I have found that males normally provide the female with just enough "food" to make sure she doesn't get to the ampulla.

  Academic text (1991)

• Immediately after mating, the female removes the spermatophylax from the ampulla with her mouth and eats it.

  Academic text (1991)

• If the female eats the ampulla before it has completely drained, there may not be enough of the male's sperm to fertilize all her eggs.

  Academic text (1991)

• She then moves on to the second course—the ampulla itself.

  Academic text (1991)

• If she eats the ampulla before the sperm has passed into her body, however, insemination fails and, from the male's perspective, the mating was a waste.

  Academic text (1991)

• Females are tempted to mate by the prospect of eating a large, gummy collar, known as the spermatophylax, which surrounds the sperm-containing ampulla.

  Academic text (1991)

• But in the case of the decorated cricket, the bulbous, sperm-filled part of the spermatophore, the ampulla, is surrounded by a large gummy part called the spermatophylax.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the human ear, the ampulla contains fluid that plays a crucial role in balance.

Synonyms

B

bulb

vsampulla

• Specialized

1 7.7

A rounded swelling in a part of the body often mentioned in old medical books

is a flask-shaped dilation often found in the semicircular canals of the ear

Surface Forms

Etymology