The corpus record — Latin

habenula

habenula · f

a small strip of diseased flesh which is cut out from the body

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Where it lives

De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

hăbēnŭla, ae, f.dim.habena, II. A.,

I a small strip of diseased flesh which is cut out from the body: tum ab ora vel vulsella vel hamo apprehensam tamquam habenulam excidere, Cels. 7, 28; id. 7, 7, 8 fin.; 20 fin.

In the wild

habenula Celsus, De Medicina 7.20
habenulam Celsus, De Medicina 7.28
habenula Celsus, De Medicina 7.4.p4
habenula Celsus, De Medicina 7.7.p8

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.