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What (who) is atrium - definition
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Atrium (disambiguation)
atrium
['e?tr??m]
¦ noun (plural atria 'e?tr?? or atriums)
1. Architecture an open-roofed central court in an ancient Roman house.
a central hall or court in a modern building, typically rising through several stories and having a glazed roof.
2. Anatomy each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles.
Derivatives
atrial adjective
Origin
C16: from L.
atrium
(atriums)
An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
N-COUNT
Atrium
·noun A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
II. Atrium ·noun The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.
III. Atrium ·noun A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. ·see Ascidioidea.
IV. Atrium ·add. ·noun A cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, ·etc.
V. Atrium ·noun An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
Examples of use of atrium
1. The donor heart was placed in the right side of Hannah‘s chest and connected to her own heart‘s aorta, right atrium and left atrium.
2. Toivo Korhonen and Jaakko Laapotti: Tonttukallio Atrium houses, Espoo.
3. The event was held at the Atrium restaurant below the BBC‘s Millbank base in Westminster.
4. The building will feature an atrium that ties together two existing office buildings.
5. He counsels investors to ignore the background noise surrounding Gazit Globe‘s investment in Atrium.