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ampul′la of Lo•ren•zi′ni
(lôr′ən zē′nē),USA pronunciation [Ichthyol.]
- Anatomy, Fishany of an array of electroreceptors in the head of sharks, skates, and rays capable of detecting weak electrical signals produced by muscular activity in other creatures.
- after Italian physician Stefano Lorenzini (fl. 1678), who first described them
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