restiform

British  

/ ˈrɛstɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike

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Etymology

Origin of restiform

C19: from New Latin restiformis , from Latin restis a rope + forma shape

Example Sentences

Restiform, res′ti-form, adj. cord-like.—Restiform body, the inferior peduncle of the cerebellum.

From Project Gutenberg

Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus. 7th.

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Moreover, even in the case of the eye, it was always protrusion that was caused in the parent and transmitted to the offspring as a result of injuring the restiform bodies of the former; while it was always partial closure of the eyelids that was caused and transmitted by section of the sympathetic nerve, or removal of the cervical ganglia.

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Neither in the case of the sciatic nerve, the sympathetic nerve, the cervical ganglion, nor the restiform bodies, was there ever any trace of transmitted injury in the corresponding parts of the offspring; so that, if the "diseases" from which they suffered be regarded as hereditary, we have to suppose that a consequence was in each case transmitted without the transmission of its cause, which is absurd.

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Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball....

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