What's the difference between peduncle and peduncular?
Peduncle
Definition:
(n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
(n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
(n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Exposure to short photoperiod increased the number of immunoreactive cell bodies within the anterior hypothalamus and preoptic area (AHPOA) and also increased the optical density for staining of immunoreactive cell bodies in the AHPOA and olfactory peduncle.
(2) In excised regenerating peduncles algae divide before digestive cells, and at the onset of digestive cell division mitotic cells were found to contain almost twice the number of algae as before excision.
(3) ruber, anterodorsolateral midbrain tegmentum, superior and inferior colliculi, pontine gray, cerebral peduncles, medial pontine reticular formation, raphe and vestibular nuclei did not affect the acoustic structure of the calls tested.
(4) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(5) Individual axons leave the ventral peduncle and run dorsally in the transverse plane, entering the dorsal lateral geniculate complex from its ventral edge.
(6) All of those lesions were located in the brainstem or cerebellar peduncles and were identified by NMR, but missed by CT.
(7) This copper-chelating agent produces demyelination in the corpus callosum and superior cerebellar peduncles, and when treatment is stopped, there is rapid remyelination.
(8) In our case there was a "flow" of carcinomatous cells along the fistula, which entered the meningocele, invading the subdural space as far as the peduncle.
(9) The presence of Arg-Phe-amide (RFamide)-like peptides in dense-cored vesicles in neurons of the peduncle of Hydra was demonstrated by immunogold electron microscopy.
(10) The dorsolateral, lateral, and medial pontine nuclei and the middle cerebellar peduncle were effective stimulation-CS sites for training.
(11) Other precerebellar nuclei which send their cerebellipetal axons to the inferior cerebellar peduncle, such as the external cuneate nucleus, the lateral reticular nucleus and the arcuate nucleus, were normally preserved.
(12) In these pontocerebellar infarcts the middle cerebellar peduncle was the core of the affected territory.
(13) Conditioning-test procedures revealed that cerebral peduncle stimulation strongly blocked the thalamocortical (test) response, especially after ethanol, but thalamic stimulation (conditioning) had no effect upon the surface negative wave.
(14) Pathologically there was necrosis of the optic chiasma and focal areas of myelin sheath vacuolation or demyelination in certain areas of the brain, especially in the cerebellar peduncles.
(15) Section of the superior cerebellar peduncle just rostral to the deep cerebellar nuclei results in degenerating axon terminals within the contralateral inferior olive.
(16) These high intensity areas of internal capsule, brain stem and middle cerebellar peduncle on T2 weighted image would be significant for understanding pyramidal tract sign and cerebellar sign of this case.
(17) Postmortem studies were carried out upon five cases and showed either pathological changes in the cerebellum or a lesion involving the cerebellar peduncles in the brain stem.
(18) We concluded that in combination with intra-operative CSF drainage and the sitting position the infratentorial supracerebellar approach allows safe access to lesions situated in an area limited by the posterior part of the third ventricle, the fastigium level and both cerebellar peduncles.
(19) The centre for control of the four eye-muscle nerves in the anterior lateral pedal lobe receives many fibres direct from the statocyst and from the peduncle and basal lobes, but none direct from the optic lobe.
(20) Cerebellar cortex, cerebellar peduncles and spinocerebellar tracts were preserved.
Peduncular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(2) Nonetheless, in the penicillin focus, excitatory response to peduncular and epicortical stimulation was maintained.
(3) Peduncular protrusions at the periphery of the cell contained numerous dense bodies 0.4-0.9 micron in diameter.
(4) Three patients with medial ventral cerebellar peduncular hemorrhages presented with a characteristic syndrome.
(5) The results of 128 electrode placements show that the route of the nigro-striatal projection supports strong self-stimulation effects from the substantia nigra to the ento-peduncular nucleus.
(6) The genu of internal capsule constantly courses from the anterior end of the caudothalamic groove down to the peduncular arc and is easily identified.
(7) Both fast and slow BP responses were remarkably potentiated after single or relatively brief repetitive peduncular stimulation, but were depressed after long-lasting high-frequency activation.
(8) Presumably, the mature multivesicular structures were subsequently translocated to peduncular processes and their contents released into the central canal lumen in an exocytotic manner.
(9) The left coronary artery, which was in an abnormal position, was occluded by a verrucous peduncular elongation originating from the anterior left leaflet of the aortic valve.
(10) The labeled terminals in the pons were in the dorsolateral, lateral, dorsal, and peduncular nuclei.
(11) It has been reported that the intravesical instillation therapy had response rates ranging from 60 to 70% for bladder cancer and we could expect its significant efficacy, in terms of clinical benefits with quick response and lower medical cost, in patients of superficial and papillary peduncular tumors with multiple diseases and in diameter of maximum 1 cm.
(12) In fractures revealing the E face of the plasmalemma, cytoplasmic portals at the bases of peduncular stalks were distinguishable from endocytic vesicles.
(13) The condition is comparable with the Lhermitte peduncular-diencephalic visual hallucinosis.
(14) Secretory bodies and their granular content also were observed both in the region of the Golgi complex and partially extruded into peduncular processes.
(15) On T1 and T2 weighted images of MRI, right peduncular lesion showed low signal.
(16) The diagnosis of a small medial cerebellar peduncular hemorrhage was established by CT.
(17) The remaining projections were innervated via the subcortical pathway which comprised three bundles: The deep bundle (to TRN, LGNd, Pul and Po), the superficial bundle (to LGNv, APN, PPN, NOT, and SC), and the peduncular bundle (to PN).
(18) Their axons form recurrent collaterals, some of which run rostrally in the peduncular white matter.
(19) The diagnostic work-up revealed a large, pleural-based, right lung mass, a large left adrenal mass, two ulcerated small bowel masses, and a unique giant peduncular mass that caused intermittent intussusception.
(20) Recurrent collaterals of pyramidal neurons were activated by peduncular stimulation.