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‖ funiculus|fjuːˈnɪkjʊləs|
[L. fūniculus, dim. of fūnis rope.]
†1. A little rope. Obs. rare—0.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
†2. A hypothetical ‘string’ or filament of extremely rarefied matter, imagined to be the agent operating in the suspension of the mercury in the Torricellian experiment. Obs.
The hypothesis was propounded by Franciscus Linus (the Jesuit F. Line or Hall) in his book De Corporum Inseparabilitate 1661, which attempts to refute the correct explanation of the phenomenon that had been given by Boyle.
1662Boyle Spring of Air ii. i. (1682) 18 That the things we ascribe to the weight or spring of the air are really performed by neither, but by a certain Funiculus, or extremely thin substance provided by Nature..which..does violently attract bodies whereunto it is contiguous if they be not too heavy to be removed by it. 1669― Contn. New Exp. i. (1682) 5 Who attribute the suspension of the Quicksilver in the Torricellian experiment to a certain rarified matter, which some call a Funiculus.
3. The umbilical cord; = funis. Hence transf. in Bot., a little stalk by which a seed or ovule is attached to the placenta.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 111 Ovules ascending from the axis, attached to a short funiculus. 1854Mayne Exp. Lex., Funiculus, a name for the umbilical cord. 1870Bentley Bot. 326 The funiculus is parallel to the ovule, instead of being at right angles to it. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 492 The nucellus..is seated on a stalk, the Funiculus.
4. Ent.
a. ‘A term for the part of the antenna which lies between the scape and the club in certain insects’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. iv. 262 Lamellar appendage of the outer antennæ reaching to the middle of the second joint of the funiculus.
b. (See quots.)
1826Kirby & Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 389 The Funiculus, a small cartilaginous cord, passing through a minute orifice of the Postfrœnum, just above the point where the footstalk is fixed, to an opposite hole above it. 1895Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. i. 492 The petiole, besides articulating..with the propodeum by means of certain prominences and notches, is also connected there⁓with by means of a slender ligament placed on its dorsal aspect and called the funiculus. 1923A. D. MacGillivray Guide Ext. Insect Anat. iii. 79 When the ring-segments are wanting and the antenna is geniculate, the segments between the club and the scape are known as the funiculus. 1937J. R. de la Torre-Bueno Gloss. Ent. 110 Funicle, funicule, funiculus, in the insect antenna, that part of the clavola between the club and the ring-joints (Comstock).
5. Anat. ‘Applied to the primitive cord or bundle of nerve fibres, bound together in a sheath of connective tissue, called the perineurium or neurilemma’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
6. In Polyzoa. (See quot.)
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. viii. 455 Very generally, the gastric division of the alimentary canal is connected with the parietes of the body by a sort of ligament, the funiculus, or gastro-parietal band. |