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Atrium

A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

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Chamber 76% connected

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

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Court 76% connected

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…

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Courtyard 76% connected

A court or inclosure attached to a house.

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Atrial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an atrium.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Atrial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an atrium.

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Ventricle noun · 86% connection

a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries

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Ethics committee noun · 85% connection

a committee appointed to consider ethical issues

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Ethics panel noun · 85% connection

a committee appointed to consider ethical issues

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Apophysis noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra

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Apparatus noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"

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Articulatio noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)

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Articulation noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)

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Base noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull"

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Bodily cavity noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

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Cavity noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

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Cavum noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body

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Cingulum noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)

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Concha noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape

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Cornu noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape

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Corona noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape

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Diaphragm noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration

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Fissure noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes

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Fundus noun · 78% connection

(anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus"; "the fundus of the sto…

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Acre noun · 78% connection

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: square, hall, lighted, rooms, open.
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Alight adjective · 78% connection

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.

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Are noun · 78% connection

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…

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Attic adjective · 78% connection

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

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Bazar noun · 78% connection

A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.

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Biquadrate noun · 78% connection

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

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Brigantine noun · 78% connection

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.

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Castle verb · 78% connection

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…

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Centare noun · 78% connection

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

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Corridor noun · 78% connection

an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

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Dehiscence noun · 78% connection

(biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other repro…

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Gallery adjective · 78% connection

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or colu…

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