Cornu (pl. cornua) is a Latin word for ''horn''. Cornu may also refer to: *

Cornu (horn) A ''cornu'' or ''cornum'' (, " horn", sometimes translated misleadingly as " cornet"; : ''cornua'') was an ancient Roman brass instrument about long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened the struc ...

, an ancient musical instrument

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* Cornu (surname)

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Cornu, Prahova Cornu is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cornu de Jos, Cornu de Sus, and Valea Oprii; the administrative centre is Cornu de Jos. The commune is located in the northwestern part of the county, next ...

, a commune in Prahova County, Romania *

Cornu Luncii Cornu Luncii () is a commune located in Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north ...

, a commune in Suceava County, Romania * Cornu, a village in

Bucerdea Grânoasă Bucerdea Grânoasă (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 2,169 (as of 2021). It is composed of four villages: Bucerdea Grânoasă, Cornu (''Kornujalja''), Pădure (''Székelyhegytanya''), and Pâ ...

Commune, Alba County, Romania * Cornu, a village in

Orodel Orodel is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Se ...

Commune, Dolj County, Romania * Cornu de Jos (disambiguation), multiple places * ''Cornu–'', a prefix used to indicate a relation to

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

Science and medicine

Euler spiral An Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length (the curvature of a circular curve is equal to the reciprocal of the radius). This curve is also referred to as a clothoid or Cornu spiral.Levien, Raph"The Euler spi ...

, also known as a Cornu spiral * Latin name for a

cutaneous horn Cutaneous horns, also known by the Latin name ''cornu cutaneum'', are unusual keratinous skin tumors with the appearance of horns, or sometimes of wood or coral. Formally, this is a clinical diagnosis for a "conical projection above the surface ...

, an eruption of the skin, mostly in fair skinned persons which can be benign but is often a precursor of skin cancer

Anatomy

Cornu ammonis The hippocampal subfields are four subfields CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4 that make up the structure of the hippocampus. Regions described in the hippocampus are the head, body, and tail, and other hippocampal subfields include the dentate gyrus, the ...

, a part of the hippocampus of the brain *

Cornu coccygeum The coccyx (: coccyges or coccyxes), commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the vertebral column in all apes, and analogous structures in certain other mammals such as horses. In tailless primates (e.g. humans and other g ...

, one of two upward projecting processes which articulate with the sacrum * Cornua of the

hyoid The hyoid-bone (lingual-bone or tongue-bone) () is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid-cartilage. At rest, it lies between the base of the mandible and the third cervical verte ...

, the greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bones * Cornu anterius and cornu posterius, parts of the

lateral ventricles The lateral ventricles are the two largest ventricles of the brain and contain cerebrospinal fluid. Each cerebral hemisphere contains a lateral ventricle, known as the left or right lateral ventricle, respectively. Each lateral ventricle resemb ...

of the brain * Horns of the spinal cord ** Cornu anterius medullae spinalis ** Cornu posterius medullae spinalis * Sacral Cornua, two small processes projecting inferiorly on either side of the

sacral hiatus The sacrum (: sacra or sacrums), in human anatomy, is a triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by the fusing of the sacral vertebrae (S1S5) between ages 18 and 30. The sacrum situates at the upper, back part of the pelvic cavity, ...

leading into the sacral canal * Uterine cornu, one of two

uterine horns The uterine horns (cornua of uterus) are the points in the upper uterus where the fallopian tubes or oviducts exit to meet the ovaries. They are one of the points of attachment for the round ligament of uterus (the other being the mons pubis). T ...

, located near the entry of the fallopian tube

Zoology

* ''Cornu'' (gastropod), a genus of snails ** ''

Cornu aspersum ''Cornu aspersum'' (syn. ''Helix aspersa'', ''Cryptomphalus aspersus''), known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, ...

'', species of brown garden snail, formerly known as ''Helix aspersa'' * One of two horn

clasper In biology, a clasper is a male anatomical structure found in some groups of animals, used in mating. Male cartilaginous fish have claspers formed from the posterior portion of their pelvic fin which serve to channel semen into the female's ...

s associated with the penis of a bee drone

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