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noun

atrium

any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)

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Six example sentences with atrium, each labelled with its topic.

  • Daylight pours through the glass roof into the atrium, where four office wings meet around a single staircase.

    Architecture

  • The scan showed blood pooling in the left atrium before it could be pushed down into the ventricle.

    Medicine

  • The bank holds its all-hands meetings in the atrium so staff on every floor can lean over and listen.

    Business

  • A Roman house opened onto an atrium, the central hall where rain fell through the roof into a shallow pool.

    History

  • A fish heart has only one atrium feeding one ventricle, which is why its blood loops through the gills just once.

    Science

  • The hotel's atrium rises twenty floors, and glass elevators climb its walls past hanging vines and a grand piano.

    Travel

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