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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

When ripe, each half falls away, leaving the seeds attached by delicate stalks (funiculi, sing. funiculus) to the edges of the membranous partition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Their axons pass into the lateral funiculus of the same, or of the opposite side.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

The remainder of the lateral funiculus consists chiefly of the lateral proper fasciculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

Neuroanatomy can have terms that are very easy to confuse, like fasciculus versus funiculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

Some of the fibers are said to pass down with the rubrospinal tract in the lateral funiculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

Its spinal portion is located in the anterior funiculus and is known as the vestibulospinal fasciculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon] Reference

—This funiculus comprises two main fasciculi, viz., the fasciculus gracilis, and the fasciculus cuneatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

In the cord it is intermingled with the fibers of the vestibulospinal fasciculus in the anterior funiculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1F. Pathways from the Brain to the Spinal Cord] Reference

The nerve fibers are held together and supported within the funiculus by delicate connective tissue, called the endoneurium.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1. Structure of the Nervous System] Reference

The remaining fibers of the anterior funiculus constitute what is termed the anterior proper fasciculus (fasciculus anterior proprius; anterior basis bundle).    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

The tectospinal fasciculus, situated partly in the anterior and partly in the lateral funiculus, is mainly derived from the opposite superior colliculus of the mid-brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

Neurons of the second order send their axons through the anterior commissure to pass upward in the antero-lateral funiculus probably in the ventral spinothalamic fasciculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4d. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

The Spermatic Cord (funiculus spermaticus) (Fig. 1146) extends from the abdominal inguinal ring, where the structures of which it is composed converge, to the back part of the testis.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs] Reference

The lower end of the ala cinerea is crossed by a narrow translucent ridge, the funiculus separans, and between this funiculus and the clava, is a small tongue-shaped area, the area postrema.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

In transverse section it is shaped somewhat like a comma, the expanded end of which lies in front of the dorsal spinocerebellar fasciculus while the tail reaches forward into the anterior funiculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

On section it is seen that the funiculus separans is formed by a strip of thickened ependyma, and the area postrema by loose, highly vascular, neuroglial tissue containing nerve cells of moderate size.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

Its cells are of medium size, and of an oval or pyriform shape; their axons pass into the peripheral part of the lateral funiculus of the same side, and there ascend, probably in dorsal spinocerebellar (direct cerebellar) fasciculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

In the medulla the two bundles are more or less intermingled and the tectospinal portion is continued into the antero-lateral funiculus of the spinal cord ventral to the rubrospinal fasciculus with which some of its fibers are intermingled.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 1F. Pathways from the Brain to the Spinal Cord] Reference

(b) The ventral spinocerebellar fasciculus (Gowers) skirts the periphery of the lateral funiculus in front of the dorsal spinocerebellar fasciculus.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis] Reference

Omnes eninij quibus funiculus colorem alHnebat, raul£): am perfol - vebant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine] Reference

My funiculus notes it.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

(1) Fibers from the dorsal spinocerebellar fasciculus, which ascends from the lateral funiculus of the medulla spinalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

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