INFUNDIBULUM

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

2.
n.

A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads.

3.
n.

The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.