“Rain gutters feed a cistern hooked to a sprinkler system for watering the fruit orchard and grass.”

“The oil reservoir, or font, was mounted on top of the cistern, and the flow of oil into it was controlled by a valve.”

“An irregularly shaped cistern is meant to receive varying amounts of water during the operation of the machine.”

“Long days of rowing on the lake of Albano, and boar-hunting at cisterna, made him strong and active.”

“And you expect to keep your children alive if you send them to cisterna?”

“The thoracic duct extends from the cisterna chyli, at the level of the second lumbar vertebral body, to a structure posterior and to the right of the aorta.”

“The Golgi apparatus is a complex of flattened cisternae arranged in closely packed rows.”

“The Golgi body is made of a stack of membrane-bound, elongated, flattened, pancake-like, cisternae associated with lateral, membrane-bound saccules and membrane-bound vesicles.”

“The Golgi complex of mammalian cells is composed of interconnected stacks of flattened cisternae that form a continuous membrane system in the pericentriolar region of the cell.”

“Place tight covers over cisterns, cesspools, septic tanks, fire barrels, rain barrels and tubs where water is stored.”

“Install half-flush cisterns in toilets so that the amount of water flushed down the drain can be reduced.”

“In Delian architecture, wells, cisterns, and large water reservoirs were usually located in a courtyard.”