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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A line is fed through a peripheral vein until it reaches the right atrium of the heart.
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He was cold, very cold despite the hothouse temperature of the atrium .
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It is a large house and has two entrances, each leading into an atrium .
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The arched door, bearing the same lion and shield as Nicolo's plane, opened on to an enclosed atrium .
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The church is constructed of thin bricks with wide mortar joints; its atrium has disappeared but the narthex remains.
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The plan is that of a cross-domed basilica with nave, aisles, eastern apse and western atrium .
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Unless you work here, however, there is no public access, except to the marble atrium .
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West of the atrium is a large expanse of water popularly known as the port of Milan.