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caruncle (iou) and Plimmer, Henry (medicine)


caruncle (iou)



caruncle noun. L16.
[Obsolete French from Latin caruncula dim. of caro flesh: see -UNCLE.]
A fleshy excrescence or swelling, such as that at the inner corner of the eye (the lacrimal caruncle), or the wattles of a turkey, etc., or (Botany) adjoining the micropyle of certain seeds.
ca'runcular adjective of the Nature of or resembling a caruncle M19.
ca'runculate adjective having a caruncle or caruncles E19.
ca'runculated adjective (now rare) = carunculate E19.

Plimmer, Henry (medicine)


Plimmer, Henry
<person> English protozoologist, 1857-1918.

See: Plimmer's bodies.