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funiculus

NOUN
  1. the stalk of a plant ovule or seed
  2. any of several body structure resembling a cord

How To Use funiculus In A Sentence

  • Chronic inflammation reaction and foreign body reaction in the spermatic funiculus was observed in 100% of the animals.
  • The outer layer of a fresh lobster egg shows the remains of the funiculus that once attached it to the female.
  • 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
  • These nutrients enter the seed through a single vascular bundle in the funiculus that extends into the seed coat as the chalazal vein and its two lateral branches.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. IX. Neurology. 1. Structure of the Nervous System
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fully penetrant malformation involved a dorsolateral extension of cells in the dorsal horns into the region normally occupied by the overlying nerve tracts and ectopic cells scattered throughout the dorsal funiculus.
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