They take their name from the Latin word clavus, or the French clou, both meaning a nail, and to which the clove has a considerable resemblance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

These hysteric affections are not necessarily attended with pain; though it sometimes happens, that pains, which originate from quiescence, afflict these patients, as the hemicrania, which has erroneously been termed the clavus hystericus; but which is owing solely to the inaction of the membranes of that part, like the pains attending the cold fits of intermittents, and which frequently returns like them at very regular periods of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Claval suture: Hemiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating the clavus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

They will have another nine days as they prepare for a conclave, cumme clave, a cumme clavus, the locking in to the Sistine Chapel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005] Reference

From there, six thousand men wended their way in solemn order across the Velia and down the Clivus Sacer into the lower Forum, most of them knights with the narrow stripe — the angustus clavus — on their tunics, a thinned Senate following behind the consuls and their lictors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

A corn, clavus (plural: clavi) is a specially-shaped callus of dead skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Perhaps even clavus, a nail, must also be considered, for a Latin vocabulary of the fifteenth century tells us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Another seat of schirrus is in the membranous parts of the system, as of the rectum intestinum, the urethra, the gula or throat; and of this kind is the verucca or wart, and the clavus pedum, or corns on the toes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

But the clavus hystericus, or pain about the middle of the parietal bone on one side of the head, I have seen produced by the second of the molares, or grinders, of the under-jaw; of which I shall relate the following case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Thus when any acrid material, as snuff or lime, falls into the eye, pain and inflammation and heat are produced from the excess of stimulus; but violent hunger, hemicrania, or the clavus hystericus, are attended with coldness of the extremities, and defect of circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

All men left in the Senate are wearing the sagum instead of the toga, and a knight’s narrow stripe on their tunics rather than the latus clavus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

We are now going to enter upon a new scene of events. — — Leave we then the breeches in the taylor’s hands, with my father standing over him with his cane, reading him as he sat at work a lecture upon the latus clavus, and pointing to the precise part of the waistband, where he was determined to have it sewed on. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

If he had an opportunity of talking in private with an ingenuous and intelligent youth, he sometimes attempted to make a proselyte, and showed much address in bribing the vanity of inexperience, by suggesting that a mind like his ought to spurn the prejudices impressed upon it in childhood; and when assuming the latus clavus of reason, assuring him that such as he, laying aside the bulla of juvenile incapacity, as Bletson called it, should proceed to examine and decide for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock] Reference

The puchery, or pichurim, which is grated like nutmeg, differs from another aromatic fruit (a laurel?) known in trade at Grand Para by the names of cucheri, cuchiri, or cravo (clavus) do Maranhao, and which, on account of its odour, is compared with cloves.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

#Give the treatment of clavus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

#What is the pathology of clavus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Agaricus clavus«.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference