infundibuliform

[Lat. infundibulum (q. v.), and form a =form.] Anat. & Bot.: Infundibular; funnel-shaped. There is an infundibuliform fascia of the abdomen. One form of corolla is infundibuliform. in-fun-dib-u-lum ( pl. in-fun-dib-u-lạ), s. 1. Anat.: Any part more or le funnel-shaped. [Lat. a funnel.] There is an infundibulum of the heart, one of the lungs, and one of the ethmoid bone; also infundibula of the kidneys. 2. Zoology : (1) The funnel or siphon of the Cephalopod a, the tube formed by the coalescence or the apposition of their epipodia. (2) The channel formed by folded proce es of the mantle by which water pa es out from the branchial chamber of mollusks. *in-fün'-er-al, v. t . [Pref. in- (1), and Eng. fun eral (q.v.).] To perform the rite of burial for; to bury. "As though her flesh did but in funeral Her buried ghost." G. Fletcher: Christ's Vict. and Triumph. in-für-ca-tion, s. [Pref. in- (1), and Eng. fur cation (q. v.).] A forked expansion. infusionism In-für-I-āte, v . t . [INFURIATE, a.] To render furious or mad; to provoke to madne or fury. In-für-I-ate, a. [Ital. in fur i a to , pa. par. of in fur i are to grow into fury or rage: in- =in, and furia =fury.] Infuriated, enraged, mad, raging.