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2007-01-02 02:00:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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INFUNDIBULUM
A funnel-shaped cavity.
It’s the Latin word for a funnel, derived from infundere, “to pour”, plus the ending –bulum which formed the names of instruments. In English, it turns up in various anatomical contexts for something funnel-shaped. For example, in the human body it describes the outermost section of the fallopian tubes, a structure in the cochlea of the ear, and a formation in the brain close to the pituitary, among others. Science-fiction fans may have come across the splendid phrase chronosynclastic infundibulum that was invented by Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan, which he explained, perhaps less than helpfully, as being “those places ... where all the different kinds of truths fit together”. The plural is infundibula and the adjective these days is usually infundibular, but others such as infundibuliform and infundibulate have also been used from time to time.

2007-01-04 18:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

An infundibulum (Latin for funnel; plural, infundibula) is a funnel-shape cavity or organ.

Etymology
It’s the Latin word for a funnel, derived from infundere, “to pour”, plus the ending –bulum which formed the names of instruments. In English, it turns up in various anatomical contexts for something funnel-shaped. For example, in the human body it describes the outermost section of the fallopian tubes, a structure in the cochlea of the ear, and a formation in the brain close to the pituitary, among others. Science-fiction fans may have come across the splendid phrase chronosynclastic infundibulum that was invented by Kurt Vonnegut in The Sirens of Titan, which he explained, perhaps less than helpfully, as being “those places ... where all the different kinds of truths fit together”. The plural is infundibula and the adjective these days is usually infundibular, but others such as infundibuliform and infundibulate have also been used from time to time.

2007-01-02 02:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by Real Madrid Fan 2 · 0 0

What Is Infundibulum

2017-01-14 03:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

An infundibulum (Latin for funnel; plural, infundibula) is a funnel-shape cavity or organ.

2007-01-02 02:19:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

INFUNDIBULUM
a funnel-shaped opening, passage, or structure in vertebrates, e.g. the stalk connecting the pituitary gland to the brain or the opening of a fallopian tube into the ovary

2007-01-02 02:28:55 · answer #5 · answered by Grapy 2 · 0 0

The funnel end of the oviduct that picks up the yolk when it is released from the ovary; the area in which fertilization of the true egg takes place; also called funnel.

2007-01-02 05:37:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

funnel shaped cavity or structure as in the hollow stalk that conects the Hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary gland

2007-01-02 02:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by AF Medic 3 · 0 0

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2007-01-02 02:09:35 · answer #8 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0 0

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