CORNU (cornua)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cornua   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornu mean? 

• CORNU (noun)
  The noun CORNU has 1 sense:

1. (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape

  Familiarity information: CORNU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cornu" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

 Context examples 

The first of four fields in the cornu ammonis of the hippocampus which receives inputs from the perforant path originating in layer III of the entorhinal cortex.

(CA1 Field of the Cornu Ammonis, NCI Thesaurus)

The last of four regions in the cornu ammonis of the hippocampus and is also part of the hilus of the dentate gyrus.

(CA4 Field of the Cornu Ammonis, NCI Thesaurus)

The second of four fields in the cornu ammonis of the hippocampus which receives inputs from the perforant path originating in layer II of the entorhinal cortex.

(CA2 Field of the Cornu Ammonis, NCI Thesaurus)

A broad, fibro-elastic membrane extending from the upper border of the thyroid cartilage to the greater cornu and posterior border of the hyoid bone.

(Middle Thyrohyoid Ligament, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal pregnancy in which the conception is implanted and develops in the cornu of uterus.

(Cornual Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: ‘sub tegmine fagi,’ or ‘habet fœnum in cornu,’ which gives a flavour to one’s conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The third of four regions in the cornu ammonis of the hippocampus which receives inputs from mossy fibers originating from the granule cells in the dentate gyrus and from inputs along the perforant path originating in layers II and III within the entorhinal cortex.

(CA3 Field of the Cornu Ammonis, NCI Thesaurus)