caruncula

• “Lateral to the caruncula is a slight semilunar fold of conjunctiva, the concavity of which is directed toward the cornea; it is called the plica semilunaris.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye

• “If we step on shore, the ‘Charadrius caruncula’, a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of “public-spirited individual”, follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger.”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “Forsitan in quibusdam populis localis quoque causa existit; caruncula immoderate crescente, amputationis necessitas exurgit.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “The caruncula lacrimalis is a small, reddish, conical-shaped body, situated at the medial palpebral commissure, and filling up the lacus lacrimalis.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye

• “It then passes to the medial angle of the eye, and supplies the skin of the eyelids and side of the nose, the conjunctiva, lacrimal sac, and caruncula lacrimalis.”

  IX. Neurology. 5e. The Trigeminal Nerve

• “At the medial commissure (Fig. 1205) are the caruncula lacrimalis and the plica semilunaris.”

  XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck

• “Mr. Bowman found that by slitting up the inferior punctum and canaliculus as far as the caruncula, several advantages were gained: -- (1.)”

  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners

• “The caruncula lachrymalis is a small glandular body situated at the internal commissure of each eye.”

  The Dog

• “(caruncula gutturalis Linnaei) a white spot often, if not always, of a foot diameter, on the hinder part of the buttocks round the tail; its gait a trot, and attended with a rattling of the hoofs; but distinguished from that decisively by its horns, which are not palmated, but round and pointed.”

  Notes on the State of Virginia

• “Monsieur flattered himself that he might by means of laughter squeeze or express the tears required from the well-known meibomian glands, the caruncula, &c., and might thus piratically provide himself with surreptitious rain; [18] but in that case, he must remind him that he would no more win the day with any such secretions than he could carry to account a course of sneezes or wilfully blowing his nose; a channel into which it was well known that very many tears, far more than were now wanted, flowed out of the eyes through the nasal duct; more indeed by a good deal than were ever known to flow downwards to the bottom of most pews at a funeral sermon.”

  The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg

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