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PUNCTUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does punctum mean?
• PUNCTUM (noun)
The noun PUNCTUM has 1 sense:
1. (anatomy) a point or small area
Familiarity information: PUNCTUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anatomy) a point or small area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("punctum" is a kind of...):
point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)
Domain category:
anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)
Context examples
Either of two ducts (superior and inferior) that originate at the puncta lacrimalia of the eye and terminate at the lacrimal sac.
(Lacrimal Canaliculus, NCI Thesaurus)
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