Usually means: Container for holding or receiving.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptaculum: Merriam-Webster
  2. receptaculum: Collins English Dictionary
  3. receptaculum: Wordnik
  4. receptaculum: Wiktionary
  5. Receptaculum, receptaculum: Dictionary.com
  6. Receptaculum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. receptaculum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Receptaculum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. receptaculum: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Receptaculum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. receptaculum: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Receptaculum: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. receptaculum: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (receptaculum)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A receptacle.

Similar:
retinaculum, retractor, megarectum, repositor, retriever, retentor, retrocervix, preopercular, proventricle, auricle, more...

Opposite:
empty, void, nothingness

Phrases:
receptaculum chyli, more...

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Similar:
retinaculum, retractor, megarectum, repositor, retriever, retentor, retrocervix, preopercular, proventricle, auricle, more...

Opposite:
empty, void, nothingness

Phrases:
receptaculum chyli, more...



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