ambulatory

Examples of ambulatory in the following topics:

• Spina Bifida

  • People may have ambulatory problems; loss of sensation; deformities of the hips, knees, or feet; and loss of muscle tone.

• Architecture of the Early Christian Church

  • The central section is surrounded by two superposed ambulatories, or covered passages around a cloister.
  • Peter's, San Vitale consists of a central dome surrounded by two ambulatories.

• Ottonian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • The west choir is emphasized by an ambulatory and a crypt.
  • As churches began collecting relics (housed in the chapels), which attracted pilgrims, churches added the ambulatory, which connects the aisles to the chapels behind the choir, where clergy members perform their rituals.

• Norman Stained Glass

  • Each bay of the aisles and the choir ambulatory contains one large lancet window, most of them roughly 8.1 meters high by 2.2 meters wide.
  • Whereas the lower windows in the nave arcades and the ambulatory consist of one simple lancet per bay, the clerestory windows are each made up of a pair of lancets with a plate-traceried rose window above.

• Ravenna

  • The central section is surrounded by two superposed ambulatories, or covered passages around a cloister.

• Peritonitis

  • Examples include trauma, surgical wound, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, and intra-peritoneal chemotherapy.

• Gothic Art

• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • To achieve his aims, Suger's masons drew on the new elements that had evolved or been introduced to Romanesque architecture: the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions, and the flying buttresses, which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

• Pre-Iconic Buddhist Art and Architecture

  • Buddhist architecture emerged after the Buddha's death, building on the model of the Brahminist Hindu temple that contained an inner sanctum, a surrounding ambulatory route, and a columned porch.

• Carolingian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • By contrast, the Palatine Chapel in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), with its sixteen-sided ambulatory and overhead gallery, was inspired by the Byzantine-style octagonal church of San Vitale in Ravenna.