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n. - Any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk).

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  • The Chrono-synclastic infundibulum, for example, if l've got that right.
  • This plate reaches forward below the third cerebral vesicle as far as the infundibulum.
  • A chronosynclastic infundibulum, from memory, is where everything that could be true, is true simultaneously.
  • The lateral trabeculæ are long bars which curve round the infundibulum and reach nearly to the front end of the head.
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