Atrium
WordNet
noun
(1) The central area in a building; open to the sky
(2) Any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A square hall lit from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels
- Any enclosed body cavity or chamber
- An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
- A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus
- A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain