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Definition of Cornu
1. Noun. (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Definition of Cornu
1. n. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
Definition of Cornu
1. a hornlike bone formation [n -NUA] : CORNUAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Cornu
1. Synonym: horn. 2. Any structure composed of horny substance. 3. One of the coronal extensions of the dental pulp underlying a cusp or lobe. 4. The major subdivisions of the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere (the frontal horn, occipital horn, and temporal horn). See: lateral ventricle. Origin: L. Horn (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornu
Literary usage of Cornu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"This is the choroid plexus of the descending cornu, and when seen from above it
... In the roof of the descending cornu are seen the prolongations of taenia ..."
2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"COR'NEOUS, Cor'ne,H, Hor'ny, (F.) Corn,, (cornu, 'a horn. ... CORNICHON, (dim of
come, 'a horn,') seo Cucumis sativus—c. de Cerf, cornu cervi. ..."
3. The Observatory (1902)
"Later M. cornu congresses which laid down the lines on which the photographic
chart of the sky ... The work of M. cornu on the spectroscopes was not less ..."
4. The Essentials of Histology: Descriptive and Practical : for the Use of Students by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (1885)
"The cells of the posterior cornu are not collected into a special group. ...
The anterior roots enter the anterior cornu in a number of bundles (fig. ..."
5. Diseases of the Spinal Cord by Byrom Bramwell (1884)
"56 I have diagrammatically represented the effects of slow destruction of the
motor nerve cells of the anterior cornu. Clinical occurrence. ..."
6. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[cornu+pee], horn-foot- >d. hoofed (poet) : equi, V., Ct., ... in cornu sede-
re, at the end (of the tribunal), L.—Of an army, the wing, ..."
7. Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, and Other Distinguished Persons by Nassau William Senior (1878)
"Madame cornu is about Louis Napoleon's age, and was bred up with him as a sister.
... Madame cornu.—It was Louis Philippe that made Louis Napoleon uu homine ..."
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