Pedicel vs. Thalamus

Pedicelnoun

(botany) A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower or spore-producing body within a cluster.

Pedicelnoun

(anatomy) A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.

Pedicelnoun

(zoology) A narrow stalk-like body part in insects and other arthropods, used in various specific senses.

Pedicelnoun

(mycology) a slender stalk

Pedicelnoun

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

Pedicelnoun

A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

Pedicelnoun

The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

Pedicelnoun

a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle

Thalamusnoun

(anatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.

Thalamusnoun

(botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

Thalamusnoun

A thallus.

Thalamusnoun

An inner room or nuptial chamber.

Thalamusnoun

A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; - called also optic thalamus.

Thalamusnoun

Same as Thallus.

Thalamusnoun

large egg-shaped structures of gray matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon

Thalamus

The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος, ) is a large mass of gray matter located in the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain). Nerve fibers project out of the thalamus to the cerebral cortex in all directions, allowing hub-like exchanges of information.