INFUNDIBULUM
\ɪnfʌndˈɪbjʊləm], \ɪnfʌndˈɪbjʊləm], \ɪ_n_f_ʌ_n_d_ˈɪ_b_j_ʊ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of INFUNDIBULUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.
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A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads.
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The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.
By Oddity Software
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A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.
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A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads.
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The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.
By Noah Webster.
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Any funnel shaped organ or structure; part of the brain, of the ethmoid bone, of right ventricle, etc.; a cephalopod siphon; part of a bird's oviduct; the flattened stomach-like cavity of a Ctenophore, lying in the transverse plane.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
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A funnel-shaped passage: a, a canal from the pituitary body to the third ventricle; b, any one of the divisions of the pelvis of a kidney; c, a passage between the nasal meatus and the ethmoidal cells; d, the cavity of the fimbriae of an oviduct; e, any one of the ultimate expansions of a bronchiole ; f, a cavity at the upper end of the cochlear canal ; g, the conus arteriosus.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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