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Funiculus

//fjʊˈnɪk.jʊl.əs// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    any of several body structure resembling a cord wordnet
  3. 3
    A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta.

    "The elaiosome emerges from the funiculus."

  4. 4
    the stalk of a plant ovule or seed wordnet

Etymology

From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.

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