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INFUNDIBULUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: infundibula   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("infundibulum" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infundibulum"):

hypophyseal stalk (the funnel-shaped stalk connecting the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus)

Holonyms ("infundibulum" is a part of...):

betweenbrain; diencephalon; interbrain; thalmencephalon (the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon)

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