The dilated end of a duct resembling a globular bottle with a narrow neck found in various areas of human anatomy (i.e. the ampulla of Vater in the pancreas, the ampulla of a Fallopian tube, the ampullae at the end of the semicircular canals in the inner ear, etc.).

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