(v. t.) A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
(v. t.) A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(2) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
(3) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(4) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
(5) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
(6) The substrate binding pocket is a large funnel-shaped cleft extending some 25A into the interior of each subunit and surrounded by 28 amino acids, 26 from one subunit and 2 from the other.
(7) The inquiry has heard that NSW Liberal figures used Eightbyfive to secretly funnel more than $400,000 in donations to prospective MPs and associates in exchange for favours.
(8) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
(9) The incidence of funnel chest is about 0.05% of the population, with the emphasis on boys.
(10) Officials say Mistral may never have existed in the first place — one of 100-120 phantom firms organised to funnel money from legitimate businesses to corrupt officials.
(11) Extensive stricture formation requires reconstruction to create a functional funnel system that empties below the cricoid.
(12) This paper demonstrates the presence of areas where endocardial cells are aligned with the blood flow in three distinct regions of the embryonic chick heart: on the inferior border of the growing septum primum, on the upper wall of the primitive ventricle above the developing interventricular septum, and on the part of the atrial floor that funnels into the atrioventricular canal.
(13) A new transtympanic aerator for medium duration of use and made of flexible silicone is presented, its funnel shape preventing stagnation of plugs or allowing their simple removal.
(14) Since previous studies have demonstrated that various expressions of dopaminergic CN activity are funnelled through the deeper layers of the superior colliculus (dl-SC), it was hypothesized that switching induced by CN application of apomorphine may also be channelled through the dl-SC.
(15) Funnel chest symptoms are the expression of anxiety in a majority of cases.
(16) The surplus heat produced by electricity generating stations, factories, server farms and public transport networks is funnelled into the network, eliminating waste, lowering carbon emissions, lowering fuel consumption and saving everybody money.
(17) Huge numbers have funnelled through Libya, where the state has all but collapsed and people traffickers operate with relative impunity.
(18) A questionnaire survey of 66 patients with funnel chest who underwent corrective surgical procedures by the sternal elevation method, with or without the application of metal strut, demonstrated that the operative result was good in 60.6% and fair in 39.4%.
(19) The ideal shape of the access cavity should be a funnel with the larger diameter towards the occlusal surface.
(20) It sends "excess" military equipment to local police departments, and combined with the Homeland Security operation that provides grants to purchase such equipment, we've got a veritable firearms sale funnelling from Washington on down to the local station house.
Infundibular
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Infundibulate
Example Sentences:
(1) Intramembrane particles (IMP) were quantitatively assessed in the perikaryal plasma membranes of infundibular neurons.
(2) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(3) In the hypothalamus, radioactive material was found to be selectively concentrated in neurons in the ventral part of nucleus arcuatus and in the infundibular region.
(4) We advocate the use of beta blocker to relieve the infundibular spasm in the immediate post operative period, thereby relieving the dynamic outflow obstruction.
(5) On the other hand, when administered to hamsters sulpiride is able to promote stimulation of hypothalamic catecholaminergic neurons of tubero infundibular and anterior periventricularis nuclei.
(6) LH-RH nerve processes terminated mainly in the infurdibular radix within an elliptical zone surrounding the bases of the infundibular recessus.
(7) In addition, LHRH fibers which run caudad through the dorsal infundibular region and then the mesencephalic reticular formation were widely distributed in both the gray and the white matter of the medulla oblongata.
(8) Neuronal hypertrophy occurs in a subpopulation of neurons in the infundibular nucleus of post-menopausal women.
(9) In adult as well as in infant, high densities were found mainly in the diagonal band of Broca, preoptic area and infundibular nucleus.
(10) We performed percutaneous repair in ten patients with infundibular stenosis, three with calyceal diverticula, and ten patients with recurrent ureteropelvic-junction obstruction.
(11) Their perikarya are located in the infundibular nucleus.
(12) Small transvalvar and varied infundibular gradients commonly are present at the end of the procedure.
(13) In the adult, neurons immunoreactive with anti-beta-endorphin are found in the infundibular nucleus.
(14) In premetamorphic tadpoles, tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons were visualized in the suprachiasmatic and infundibular hypothalamus, the ventral thalamus, and midbrain tegmentum by Taylor-Kollros stage V. The number of labeled neurons in all these areas increased as metamorphosis progressed.
(15) The analysis of the scannograms obtained demonstrates that the valves of the thoracic ducts are mainly bicuspid, have a typical infundibular form, their cuspides are fused, forming a mesentery-like fold on the duct wall.
(16) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
(17) Development of the paraventriculo-infundibular corticoliberin system was studied by immunocytochemical analysis of human hypothalamic sections using antisera raised against rat or ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF).
(18) In classic tetralogy of Fallot with stenotic infundibulum, the size of the pulmonary arteries was smaller in proportion to the infundibular stenosis.
(19) Special emphasis is placed on pulmonary stenosis, particularly on its infundibular manifestations.
(20) To the best of our knowledge, connection of the mid-position of the left anterior descending to the infundibular artery has not been previously described.