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Vater, n. Anat.|fɑːtə(r)|
The name of Abraham Vater (1684–1751), German anatomist, used with of and in the possessive to designate various anatomical structures described by him: ampulla of Vater, the region of convergence of the pancreatic duct and the bile duct in the wall of the duodenum, which may take the form of an ampulla; Vater's corpuscle (also corpuscle of Vater): see corpuscles of Vater s.v. corpuscle n. 2 a; papilla of Vater, a papilla found at the end of the common bile duct, in the lumen of the duodenum.
1857Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) 957/2 Vater, Ampulla of,..an ampulla formed by the orifice of the pancreatic duct in the duodenum. Ibid., Vater, Corpuscles of, Corpuscles, Pacinian. 1905Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. X. 76 The ampulla of Vater, morphologically regarded, would appear to be the true termination of the common bile duct. 1912Trans. N.Y. Surg. Soc. I. 327 (heading) Carcinoma of the papilla of Vater. 1936Anat. Rec. LXVI. 227 Abraham Vater..was presenting the first description of that ‘tubercle’ or ‘diverticulum’ which was later to become known as the ‘ampulla of Vater’. 1951Vater's corpuscle [see mechanoreceptor n.]. 1955J. A. Sterling Biliary Tract i. 2 We have learned much since Dr. Glisson described the papilla of Vater (before Vater) in 1690. 1971W. H. Hollinshead Anat. for Surgeons (ed. 2) II. vii. 362/2 The union of the lumen of the common bile duct and that of the pancreatic duct is referred to as forming the hepatopancreatic ampulla or ampulla of Vater. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 92/2, I recently operated on a man with cancer of the duodenum, more specifically, cancer of the papilla of Vater. 1988Nature 29 Sept. 402/1 The concurrence of..carcinoma of the Ampulla of Vater and fibroblastic tumours in Gardner's syndrome, for example, is quite unexplained. |