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n. Anatomy A slender cordlike strand or band, especially:

n. Anatomy A bundle of nerve fibers in a nerve trunk.

n. Anatomy One of three major divisions of white matter in the spinal cord, consisting of fasciculi.

n. Anatomy The umbilical cord.

n. Botany A stalk connecting an ovule or a seed with the placenta.

n. Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord

n. A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta

n. 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.

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n. A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.

n. In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.

n. A small rope or cord.

n. In early German land-law, a cord or slender rope with which land was measured.

n. In old physics, a self-contracting ether, assumed by some of those who rejected the doctrine of the elasticity of the air.

n. In botany, same as funicle, 4.

n. In anat.: The navel-string or umbilical cord, connecting the fetus with the placenta, and so with the parent. Also funis and funicle.

n. One of the smaller bundles of a nerve which are inclosed in a special sheath of neurilemma or perineurium. See nerve.

n. In Polyzoa, the gastroparietal band or ligament connecting the alimentary eanal with the wall of the endocyst. See cut under Plumatella.

n. In Myriapoda, a cord connecting the anal end of the embryo with the so-called amnion.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. Same as Funiculina

n. the stalk of a plant ovule or seed

n. any of several body structure resembling a cord

"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."

stalk    stem   

funiculus gracilis    funiculus umbilicalis    funiculus spermaticus    funiculus teres    funiculus cuneatus   

funiculi    bryozoa    phylactolema