English Dictionary

cancellus

noun

(architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.

The cancellus in the amphitheater separated the spectators from the arena.

意味（1）

(architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.

意味（2）

(anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.