Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
infundibulum .
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- noun Plural form of
infundibulum .
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Examples
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago "filled with bittersweet lies," a narrator says).
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Our Dutchmen invite all comers with a pail and a dish, Velut infundibula integras obbas exhauriunt, et in monstrosis poculis, ipsi monstrosi monstrosius epotant, making barrels of their bellies.
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He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).
Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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One of these joins, or expands into, each of the minute lung sacs, or infundibula.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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* — The alveoli, or air cells, are the small divisions of the infundibula (Fig. 36).
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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They become capillary in diameter, and finally open into the infundibula of the air cells of the lungs.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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At the places where the finest divisions of the air tubes enter the infundibula, the little arteries branch into the capillaries that penetrate the infundibular walls (Figs. 38 and 39).
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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* The two large sacs are infundibula; the small divisions are alveoli.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The buds undergo further subdivision and ramification, and ultimately end in minute expanded extremitiesthe infundibula of the lung.
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After the sixth month the air-sacs begin to make their appearance on the infundibula in the form of minute pouches.
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