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n. - An outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds.

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  • Forsitan in quibusdam populis localis quoque causa existit; caruncula immoderate crescente, amputationis necessitas exurgit.
  • 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...
  • At the medial commissure (Fig. 1205) are the caruncula lacrimalis and the plica semilunaris.
  • The caruncula lachrymalis is a small glandular body situated at the internal commissure of each eye.
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