Research Results For 'Narthex'

ASAFETIDA

Asafetida is a fetid inspissated sap from Central Asia, the solidified juice of the Narthex Asafetida, a large umbelliferous plant. It was formerly used in medicine as an anti-spasmodic, and in cases of flatulency, in hysteric paroxysms, and other nervous affections. Notwithstanding its very disagreeable odour it is used as a seasoning in the East, and sometimes in Europe. An inferior sort is the product of certain species of Ferula.
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NARTHEX

In architecture a narthex is the portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories. The term is generally used for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.
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