What's the difference between funicle and pedicel?
Funicle
Definition:
(n.) A small cord, ligature, or fiber.
(n.) The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.
Example Sentences:
(1) Effects evoked in cervical moto- and interneurons by stimulation of lateral (LF) and ventral (VF) funicles at low thoracic level were studied in anaesthetized cats; degeneration of descending supraspinal fibres was provided by preliminary cord sections.
(2) In young mature rabbits the spinal cord was damaged within lateral funicles and adjacent parts of the dorsal and ventral funicles.
(3) Routinely stained preparations (H+E, Nissl) and enzymatic activity of some phosphatases and esterases was estimated as well in sections subjected to Feulgen reaction karyo- and cytophotometric measurements were performed on cell nuclei of anterior horns neurocytes, anterior columns oligodendrocytes and on anterior funicle astrocytes of the spinal cord lumbar segment.
(4) Threshold mapping for single axons showed that they descend in the lateroventral part of the lateral funicle.
(5) The ascending and descending axonal branches maintained their location in the same part of the lateral funicle.
(6) The pathways of N1, determined by dorsal and ventral epidural recording, were the dorsilateral funicle and the extrapyramidal tracts.
(7) Nevertheless, it is considered that conductive evoked spinal cord action potentials could become a valuable method of assessing spinal cord function as they reflect the function of the extrapyramidal tracts, as well as of the dorsilateral funicle and the dorsal column.
(8) Generally, thin septa (0.2-0.5 micron) ensheathed myocytes or groups of myocytes for short distances and thicker septa partially or completely ensheathed groups of myocytes for long distances (up to several mm); together, thin, and thick septa divided the myocardial mass into myocyte cords (funicles) of 10-30 micron diameter.
(9) Many of these cells are propriospinal units sending axons to the lateral funicle (LF).
(10) Laterally these dendrites reached the lateral horns and even the lateral funicles.
(11) The value of herniography was reviewed in 45 patients with a variety of urological symptoms (4 with flank pain, 20 with pain from the funicle or scrotum, 11 with symptoms simulating prostatitis and 10 with ill-defined symptoms from the small pelvis).
(12) The axonal trajectory from the cell body was usually curved before reaching the lateral funicle.
(13) The clinical symptoms and signs indicate a motor neuron syndrome and autopsy revealed degeneration of ventral and lateral funicles in the spinal cord, loss of ventral motor neurons, degeneration of ventral nerve roots and muscular atrophy.
(14) All the C3-C4 PNs could be antidromically activated from the lateral funicle in C6 and the lateral reticular nucleus but not from Th13.
Pedicel
Definition:
(n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
(n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
(n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
(n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
(n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative determination of the major saponins in fruit pedicels from the plant was made by thin layer chromatography-densitometry.
(2) Adults of the neotenic (paedomorph) Necturus maculosus possess in the upper jaw and the palate rather uniform, conical, monocuspid teeth arranged in a single line ("Zahnzeile"; monostichous pattern) and showing a broad dividing zone, which separates the pedicel and the distal crown.
(3) It was most similar to R. spinicephalum Campbell 1970 but differed by having fewer proglottids (15 to 26 vs. 36 to 49), smaller peduncle (110 to 146 vs. 330 to 470) and pedicels (100 to 180 vs. 170 to 370), fewer transverse septa (6 to 8 vs. 16 to 17), fewer total loculi per bothridium (22 to 30 vs. 32 to 34) and larger ovarian lobes (148 to 310 vs. 88 to 176).
(4) Loss of podocyte pedicels involves a gradual decrease in pedicel height beginning at the pedicel tip and progressing down the pedicel arm, formation of nublike protrusions and interpedicel microbridges (35 to 45 nm.
(5) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(6) In contrast, podocytic pedicel width along the glomerular basement membrane increased from summer activity to early hibernation, before significantly decreasing again by late hibernation.
(7) Six saponins were isolated from the fruit pedicels of Panax notoginseng.
(8) With the onset of proteinuria and oliguria, PAN rats exhibit loss of podocyte pedicels and podocyte major processes, an increase in pinocytotic activity, and an accumulation of cytoplasmic vacuoles and granules of variable size, shape, and electron density.
(9) Hydranth life spans can be extended to 20 days in isolated hydranths if, repeatedly, the pedicel is damaged by pinching and is allowed to partially regen-erate.
(10) Considerable hypervascularization is found in hepatocellular adenoma but not in FNH, although in FNH large vascular pedicel may be observed at the periphery.
(11) Experimental results showed that the root or pedicel area of the frog tooth was an intrinsic part of the tooth.
(12) The foregoing observations support the view that pedicel loss in puromycin aminonucleoside nephrosis may be due to a reduction in the glomerular epithelial polyanionic sialic acid surface coat.
(13) Repeated ovarian developmental cycles were responsible for the bi-ovipositional pattern as indicated by the presence of 2 dilatations in the ovariolar pedicel of bi-autogenous females and by the early stages of development of the ovaries (II and II B) observed 1-3 days following initial oviposition, later stages of maturation occurred progressively.
(14) They have cytoplasmic processes and pedicels which enclose narrow slits between them and that are apposed to a basal lamella.
(15) This study demonstrates that the type II cell has certain conelike morphologic features including a pale nucleus, complex synaptic pedicel, and multiple wrappings of the outer segment by microvilli of the pigment epithelium.
(16) In addition to GBM abnormalities, renal biopsy features included a slight mesangial matrix increase, occasional mesangial cell excess and often appreciable pedicel effacement.
(17) A flowback might be prevented by capillary effect of a "ball" of vesicles, which lies exactly above the outlet of the scale pedicel.
(18) There was no evidence that a loss of pedicel organization occurred with any of the three treatment times studied.
(19) No significant changes were observed in glomerular basement membrane thickness and width of podocyte pedicels.
(20) Some of the periplasmic bodies were connected to protoplasts by fine pedicels; others appeared free.