Peduncle
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The term peduncle has several meanings:
- Peduncle (botany)Peduncle (botany)In botany, a peduncle is a stem supporting an inflorescence, or after fecundation, an infructescence.The peduncle is a stem, usually green and without leaves, though sometimes colored or supporting small leaves...
, a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed - Cerebral peduncleCerebral peduncleMainly, the three common areas that give rise to the cerebral peduncles are the cortex, the spinal cord and the cerebellum. The cerebral peduncle, by most classifications, is everything in the mesencephalon except the tectum. The region includes the midbrain tegmentum, crus cerebri and pretectum...
, a band of neurons, resembling a stalk, which connect varied parts of the brain - Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
- Caudal peduncle, in fish, the narrow part of the body to which the tail attaches
- Peduncle (arthropods), the base segments of an antenna
- In insectInsectInsects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
brains, the peduncle connects the lobes of the mushroom bodiesMushroom bodiesThe mushroom bodies or corpora pedunculata are a pair of structures in the brain of insects and other arthropods.-Structure:Mushroom bodies are usually described as neuropils, i.e. as dense networks of neuronal processes and glia...
to its calyx