Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, a little horn; a little knob, boss, or spur resembling or likened to a small horn, as that on the upper eyelid of the horned puffin, hence called
Fratercula corniculata ; specifically, the lesser horn of the human hyoid bone, as distinguished from the cornu or greater horn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A small hornlike part or process.
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- noun anatomy A small
horn -like part orprocess .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bone of the tongue in man -- the os hyoides 18 -- is a small structure, and one to all appearance of little significance It is placed at the root of the tongue and above the larynx, and consists of a body with a pair of processes on each side, one large (the posterior or great cornu), and one small. (the anterior or lesser cornu, or corniculum).
The Common Frog 1874
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Uppermost left-hand figure, the youngest condition; lowest right-hand figure, the adult. h, the hyoidean arch, ultimately the corniculum; b¹-b4, the four branchial arches which become gradually atrophied, the cornua (or thyro-hyal) th being their representative in the adult; b ', another branchial rudiment; bh, the body of the hyoid. "body" of the os hyoides.
The Common Frog 1874
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-- the stylohyoid -- passes downwards on each side, from a process of the base of the skull to the corniculum of the os-hyoides or tongue-bone.
The Common Frog 1874
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