Cornu
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Cornu (pl. cornua) is a Latin word for horn.
Cornu may also refer to:
- Cornu (horn), an ancient musical instrument
People:
- Marie Alfred Cornu, a physicist for whom the Cornu spiral is named
- Paul Cornu, an engineer sometimes credited as the creator of the first helicopter
Places:
- Cornu, Prahova, Romania
- Cornu Luncii, Suceava, Romania
- Cornu–, a prefix used to indicate a relation to Cornwall
In anatomy:
- Cornu ammonis, a part of the hippocampus of the brain
- Cornu anterius, cornu inferius, and cornu posterius, parts of the the lateral ventricle of the brain
- Cornu anterius, or anterior horn, of the spinal cord
- Cornu coccygeum, one of two upward projecting processes which articulate with the sacrum
- Cornua of the hyoid, the greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bones
- Cornua of the sacrum, two small processes projecting inferiorly on either side of the sacral hiatus leading into the sacral canal.
- Uterine cornu, or uterine horn, located near the entry of the Fallopian tube
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