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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”). Doublet of caruncle.
Pronunciation
Noun
caruncula (plural carunculae)
- (anatomy, zootomy, botany) Synonym of caruncle.
1982, Sherrell J. Aston, Albert Hornblass, Murray A. Meltzer, et al., editors, Third International Symposium of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Eye and Adnexa, Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins Co., →ISBN, page 116:Even without mobilization of the bone, the median eyelid angle can be deplaced in the nasal direction. For this purpose, we inserted a heart-shaped cartilage implant, curved toward the caruncula.
References
Latin
Etymology
From carō (“flesh”) + -cula (diminutive nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
caruncula f (genitive carunculae); first declension
- diminutive of carō: little piece of flesh.
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “caruncula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caruncula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.