Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
infundibuliform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany having the
shape of afunnel - adjective medicine having to do with an
infundibulum
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Examples
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At the places where the finest divisions of the air tubes enter the infundibula, the little arteries branch into the capillaries that penetrate the infundibular walls (Figs. 38 and 39).
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The largest cusp is interposed between the atrioventricular orifice and the conus arteriosus and is termed the anterior or infundibular cusp.
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As magnetic resonance imaging revealed a sellar mass involving the pituitary gland and infundibular stalk, which also extended into the right cavernous sinus and sphenoid sinus, the patient was subjected to an immediate transsphenoidal decompression surgery.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Gonca Tamer 2009
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(1/4 mm.) in diameter, being formed by the infolding of the infundibular wall.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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