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punctum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | point |
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For the opening near the eye, associated with the tear ducts, see lacrimal punctum.
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Keep in mind that some photographs are punctum free but still haunting.
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The tears that are drained through the punctum will eventually be drained through the nose.
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He called it the punctum, Latin for puncture or point.
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As tears are produced, some fluid evaporates between blinks, and some is drained through the lacrimal punctum.
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Any excess fluid that did not go into the punctum will fall over the eye lid, which produces tears that are cried.
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The virga and punctum are sung identically.
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The two most popular insect specialists used to control spider mites are a lady bug named Stethorus punctum and a predatory mite named T. pyri.
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The basic notation of the virga and the punctum remained the symbols for individual notes, but other neumes soon developed which showed several notes joined together.
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- (anatomy) a point or small area
- A neume (spelled neum in, for instance, the Solesmes publications in English) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The word is a Middle English corruption of the ultimately Ancient Greek word for breath .
- Punctum is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Punctidae, the dot snails.
- (Puncta) The lacrimal canaliculi, one in each eyelid, commence at minute orifices, termed puncta lacrimalia (or lacrimal punctum, or lacrimal point), on the summits of the papillae lacrimales, seen on the margins of the lids at the lateral extremity of the lacus lacrimalis. ...
- (Puncta) A hole in the diatom (with a number of possible structures), often arranged into stria.
- (Puncta) General term for pore/perforation through valve when substructure (i.e. sieve membrane) is unknown or lacking.
- (Puncta) Openings on the upper and lower eyelid that lead into the canaliculi of the tear drainage system.
- (puncta) Small holes in the eyelids that normally drain tears. Patients with severe dry eye may benefit from punctal closure, a surgical procedure which allows maximal tear preservation.
- (puncta) The medical term for tear ducts.
