However, his collections from Altai and Yili in Xinjiang Province possess the so-called "caruncle" only in some fruits from the same plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

Mozambique cocks, the comb, caruncle, and epidermis being black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Based on my observation, 90% of ATV riders are caruncle-brained, porcine oafs.    From Wordnik.com.  [ATVs in Wilderness] Reference

French nurses treat cracked nipples by applying a hollow section of the fresh root over the sore caruncle; and a decoction of the root made by boiling from two to four drachms in a pint of water, is given for bleedings from the lungs or bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The lack of a caruncle may result from incomplete maturation.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

If the angel of mercy hovered above his caruncle, he did not notice it.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference

Seed of bloodroot with caruncle or crest, which serves as a handle for ants to hold on to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seed Dispersal] Reference

Hand Turkey is based on my hand, with the addition of a caruncle and wattle drawn by the Prestidigitating Suitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jen Is Famous] Reference

In some cases, however, it has been found that after removal of a large pterygium, a retraction of the caruncle and the semilunar fold is apt to take place, which renders the eyeball unpleasantly prominent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

The position of the sockets of the eyes if horizontal in the white race and inclines obliquely upwards in Mongols; in the latter case the lacrimal caruncle is generally not free, but is covered by a fold that inclines downward in a curve (the Mongolian fold).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The gland is situated above the outer part of the eyeball, and the tears which have flowed over the eye and reached the inner angle are there directed by a small, conical papilla (lacrimal caruncle) into two minute orifices, and thence by two ducts (lacrimal) to a small pouch (lacrimal sac) from which a canal leads through the bones of the face into the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The crown of the head is scarlet; betwixt the lower mandible and the eye and close by the ear there is a part which has a fine silvery - blue appearance; the corrugated part is of a dirty light brown; behind it and just above the white spot a portion of the skin is blue, and the rest scarlet; the skin which juts out behind the neck, and appears like an oblong caruncle, is blue in part and part orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in South America] Reference