Definition of Peduncular

1. a. Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

Definition of Peduncular

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a peduncle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peduncular

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Peduncular

1. Relating to a pedicle or peduncle. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peduncular

pedrails
pedregal
pedregals
pedrero
pedreroes
pedreros
pedro
pedros
peds
peduncle
peduncle of corpus callosum
peduncle of flocculus
peduncle of mamillary body
peduncled
peduncles
peduncular (current term)
peduncular ansa
peduncular loop
peduncular veins
pedunculata
pedunculate
pedunculate oak
pedunculated
pedunculated hydatid
pedunculated polyp
pedunculomamillary fasciculus
pedunculotomy
pedunculus
pedunculus cerebellaris inferior
pedunculus cerebellaris medius

Literary usage of Peduncular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The projection or peduncular fibres consist of a main body, which originates in the cord and medulla oblongata, forms the longitudinal fibres of the pons, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"... that the toxic theory advanced by Brissaud and Souques explains even in part the pathological phenomena of cerebral tumor. 3. peduncular Calotte. ..."

3. A System of Human Anatomy by John Gordon (1815)
"At the bottom of it, appears the Peduncle of the Cerebellum; and on that account, I shall distinguish it by the name of the peduncular Fossa. ..."

4. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"... magna (great horizontal fissure, peduncular sulcus). The vallecula hns been somewhat opened, to display the parts of the lower worm. ..."

5. A Text-book of mental diseases by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"The posterior longitudinal fasciculus; the superior cerebellar peduncular ubres and its red nucleus of origin ; certain fasciculi crossing the median raphé ..."

6. The Applied anatomy of the nervous system by Ambrose Loomis Ranney (1888)
"At birth, the fibers of the latter tract are distinctly medullated, while the peduncular fibers are not, thus rendering the outline of the two sets very ..."

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