Cornu
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Cornu is a Latin word for horn.
Cornu may also refer to:
  • Cornu (horn)
    Cornu (horn)
    A cornu or cornum was a type of brass instrument similar to the buccina used by the Roman army of antiquity mainly for communicating orders to troops in battle. It is a Latin word literally meaning horn. The instrument was about long and took the form of a letter 'G'...

    , an ancient musical instrument


People:
  • Dominique Cornu
    Dominique Cornu
    Dominique Cornu is a Belgian road and track cyclist from Flanders, currently riding for UCI Professional Continental team . He specializes in the time trial discipline. At the 2006 World Cycling Championship he was crowned U23 Time Trial World Champion...

    , a Belgian road and track
    Track cycling
    Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....

     cyclist
    Bicycle racing
    Bicycle racing is a competition sport in which various types of bicycles are used. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, bike trials, and cycle speedway. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport...

    , born 1985.
  • Marie Alfred Cornu
    Marie Alfred Cornu
    Marie Alfred Cornu was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu.Cornu was born at Orléans and was educated at the École polytechnique and the École des mines...

    , a physicist for whom the Cornu spiral is named
  • Paul Cornu
    Paul Cornu
    Paul Cornu was a French engineer who manufactured bicycles by trade.French engineer Paul Cornu designed the world's first manned rotary wing aircraft and made the first piloted free flight with it at Lisieux, Calvados, France on November 13, 1907. This first flight lifted Cornu about 30 cm ...

    , an engineer sometimes credited as the creator of the first helicopter


Places:
  • Cornu, Prahova
    Cornu, Prahova
    Cornu is a commune in Prahova County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cornu de Jos, Cornu de Sus and Valea Oprii; the administrative centre is Cornu de Jos....

    , a commune in Prahova County, Romania
  • Cornu, a village in Bucerdea Grânoasă
    Bucerdea Grânoasa
    Bucerdea Grânoasă is a commune located in Alba County, Romania. It has a population of 2,234. It is composed of four villages: Bucerdea Grânoasă, Cornu , Pădure and Pânca. These were part of Crăciunelu de Jos Commune until 2006, when they were split off....

     Commune, Alba County, Romania
  • Cornu, a village in Orodel Commune, Dolj County, Romania
  • Cornu de Jos (disambiguation), multiple places
  • Cornu Luncii
    Cornu Luncii
    Cornu Luncii is a commune located in Suceava County, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Băişeşti, Brăieşti, Cornu Luncii, Dumbrava, Păiseni, Sasca Mare, Sasca Mică, Sasca Nouă and Şinca....

    , a commune in Suceava County, Romania
  • Cornu–, a prefix used to indicate a relation to Cornwall
    Cornwall
    Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...



In zoology:
  • Cornu (subgenus), a subgenus of snails of the genus Helix


In anatomy:
  • Cornu ammonis, a part of the hippocampus
    Hippocampus
    The hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in...

     of the brain
  • Cornu anterius, cornu inferius, and cornu posterius, parts of the lateral ventricle of the brain
  • Cornu anterius, or anterior horn
    Anterior horn (spinal cord)
    The anterior horn of the spinal cord is the ventral grey matter section of the spinal cord. The anterior horn contains motor neurons that affect the axial muscles while the posterior horn receives information regarding touch and sensation...

    , of the spinal cord
  • Cornu coccygeum, one of two upward projecting processes which articulate with the sacrum
    Sacrum
    In vertebrate anatomy the sacrum is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity, where it is inserted like a wedge between the two hip bones. Its upper part connects with the last lumbar vertebra, and bottom part with the coccyx...

  • Cornua of the hyoid, the greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bones
  • Sacral Cornua, two small processes projecting inferiorly on either side of the sacral hiatus
    Sacral hiatus
    The laminae of the fifth sacral vertebra, and sometimes those of the fourth, fail to meet behind, and thus a sacral hiatus occurs in the posterior wall of the sacral canal....

     leading into the sacral canal.
  • Uterine cornu, or uterine horn, located near the entry of the Fallopian tube


In Medicine
  • Cutaneous horn
    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 of the skin." They are usually small and localized, but...

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