funiculus — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior and lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi.

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

   Sinônimos

   funicleumbilical cord

   Exemplos

   The elaiosome emerges from the funiculus.

Substantivo

1. the stalk of a plant ovule or seed

   Sinônimos

   funicle

   Termos mais gerais

   stalkstem

2. any of several body structure resembling a cord

   Termos mais gerais

   structureanatomical structurecomplex body partbodily structurebody structure