Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anatomy A slender cordlike strand or band, especially.
- noun A bundle of nerve fibers in a nerve trunk.
- noun One of three major divisions of white matter in the spinal cord, consisting of fasciculi.
- noun The umbilical cord.
- noun Botany A stalk connecting an ovule or a seed with the placenta.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small rope or cord.
- noun In early German land-law, a cord or slender rope with which land was measured.
- noun In old physics, a self-contracting ether, assumed by some of those who rejected the doctrine of the elasticity of the air.
- noun In botany, same as
funicle , 4. - noun In anat.: The navel-string or umbilical cord, connecting the fetus with the placenta, and so with the parent. Also
funis and funicle. - noun One of the smaller bundles of a nerve which are inclosed in a special sheath of neurilemma or perineurium. See
nerve . - noun In Polyzoa, the gastroparietal band or ligament connecting the alimentary eanal with the wall of the endocyst. See cut under
Plumatella . - noun In Myriapoda, a cord connecting the anal end of the embryo with the so-called amnion.
- noun In entomology, that part of the flagellum of the antenna which is between the pedicel and the club; the funicle: used especially of hymenopterous insects. Also
funicule . - noun In Protozoa, specifically, the filament or slender thread which connects the several nodules of a compound endoplast, as the component nuclear masses in such infusorians as Loxodes and Loxophyllum. Saville Kent.
- noun Same as
Funiculina
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.
- noun A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.
- noun In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See
Bryozoa , andPhylactolema .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy Any of several
cordlike structures, especially theumbilical cord , or abundle ofnerve fibres in thespinal cord - noun botany A
stalk that connects theseed (orovule ) with theplacenta
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stalk of a plant ovule or seed
- noun any of several body structure resembling a cord
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Linus suggested that Nature, abhorring a vacuum, caused the tube or finger to give off an invisible entity which he called funiculus, being Latin for 'little rope', which closed up the space and prevented a vacuum.
Scientific Blogging 2008
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A small bundle of fibers, enclosed in a tubular sheath, is called a funiculus; if the nerve is of small size, it may consist only of a single funiculus; but if large, the funiculi are collected together into larger bundles or fasciculi, which are bound together in a common membranous investment.
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Hic est funiculus triplex qui difficilè rumpitur, quem nobis a patria nostra in hunc carcerem usque dimissum firmiter, obsecro, teneamus: ut ipse nos sublevet, ipse nos trahat et pertrahat usque ad conspectum gloriæ magni
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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Hic est funiculus triplex qui difficilè rumpitur, quem nobis a patria nostra in hunc carcerem usque dimissum firmiter, obsecro, teneamus: ut ipse nos sublevet, ipse nos trahat et pertrahat usque ad conspectum gloriæ magni Dei: qui est benedictus in sæcula.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
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We find now that the ovule is attached to a stalk (funiculus) (Fig. 81, _G_, _f_), the body of the ovule being bent up so as to lie against the stalk.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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When ripe, each half falls away, leaving the seeds attached by delicate stalks (funiculi, sing. funiculus) to the edges of the membranous partition.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Brongniart [275] records ovules of _Delphinium elatum_ existing in the form of marginal lobes of the carpellary leaf itself; so that each ovule corresponds to a lobe or large tooth of this leaf, the funiculus, as well as the raphe, being formed by the median nerve of the lateral lobe.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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From this instance it may be assumed that the hilum may only be defined correctly as the spot of union between the body of the seed and the funiculus.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The spinal part arises from lateral cell groups in the anterior column near its dorso-lateral margin in the upper five or six segments of the cord, its roots pass through the lateral funiculus to the lateral surface of the cord.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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