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What is a funiculus?

What is a funiculus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord
  2. (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta
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The anterior spinocerebellar tract ascends on the ventral margin of the lateral funiculus.
The outer layer of a fresh lobster egg shows the remains of the funiculus that once attached it to the female.
As the posterior funiculus is not involved in the section, discriminative touch and proprioception remain intact.
In the developing siliques of stressed plants, high levels of expression were observed in the receptacles and funiculus.
The hilum is a scar formed when the funiculus detaches from the seed at maturity.
The ventral gray horn is separated from the surface of the spinal cord by the lateral portion of the anterior funiculus.

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