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an empty space in the body that is an entrance to a passage or another space: （身体部位）前庭
the nasal vestibule鼻前庭

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waiting room
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vestibule | American Dictionary

vestibule
noun[ C ]
us/ˈves·təˌbjul/
a room just inside a house or building, through which you enter the building:
In the school’s vestibule is a sign reading, "Enter here and find a friend."
You can hang your coat in the vestibule.

Examples of vestibule

vestibule
Very short infundibula in relation to vestibule length.
The pool and its attendant planter force a left turn into a ramped gallery leading to an inner vestibule.
In the acute phase it may be necessary to give vestibule s uppressants in form of motion-sickness medication.
Entry is via the vestibule building with its brick walls, corrugated tin roof, and steel-framed early twentieth-centur y industrial windows.
By contrast, the contemporary chamber is a free-form, sculpted space which is reached by a separating layer of public concourses, foyers, vestibules and plazas.
He turned the narrower east-west volume into a vestibule and greenhouse with a small swimming pool, placing independent guest rooms at its east end.
This regression of vestibule is potentially the most important step occurring during the lateralization of the atriums and occurs at the inferior atrioventricular junction.
The brain was removed from each half of the head, the labyrinth was located, and the utricular vestibule containing the lapillus was extracted.
Penetration of material into the laryngeal vestibule or below should trigger a cough reflex.
Both atrial appendages have the characteristic "left" morphology, with narrow orifices, a notched, tubular shape and absence of terminal crests, or pectinate muscles extending into the atrial vestibule.
This is clear from the plan, which shows a vestibule and hallway separating the oratory and church, making a lie of their adjacency when seen from the outside.
Here you have this kind of vestibule.
In neurophysiological terms, this would mean searching for neural units that respond to patterns of activity that extend across different kinds of receptors, such as the retina and the vestibule.
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