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Caruncula   Listen
noun
Caruncula, Caruncle  n.  
1.
(Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
2.
(Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
3.
(Zool.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.





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"Caruncula" Quotes from Famous Books



... is situated above the outer part of the eyeball, and the tears which have flowed over the eye and reached the inner angle are there directed by a small, conical papilla (lacrimal caruncle) into two minute orifices, and thence by two ducts (lacrimal) to a small pouch (lacrimal sac) from which a canal leads through the bones of the face into the nose. This opens in the lower part of the nose on the floor of the passage and a little outside the line of union ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


Words linked to "Caruncula" :   caruncular, appendage, wattle


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