Cornu

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

• Cornu (horn), an ancient musical instrument

People

• Dominique Cornu (born 1985), Belgian road and track cyclist
• Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902), French physicist for whom the Cornu spiral (also known as the Euler spiral) is named
• Paul Cornu (1881–1944), French engineer sometimes credited as the creator of the first helicopter

Places

• Cornu, Prahova, a commune in Prahova County, Romania
• Cornu Luncii, a commune in Suceava County, Romania
• Cornu, a village in Bucerdea Grânoasă Commune, Alba County, Romania
• Cornu, a village in Orodel Commune, Dolj County, Romania
• Cornu de Jos (disambiguation), multiple places
• Cornu–, a prefix used to indicate a relation to Cornwall

Science and medicine

• Euler spiral, also known as a Cornu spiral
• Latin name for a cutaneous horn, 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, a part of the hippocampus of the brain
• Cornu coccygeum, one of two upward projecting processes which articulate with the sacrum
• Cornua of the hyoid, the greater and lesser horns of the hyoid bones
• Cornu anterius and cornu posterius, parts of the lateral ventricles 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 leading into the sacral canal
• Uterine cornu, one of two uterine horns, located near the entry of the fallopian tube

Zoology

• Cornu (gastropod), a genus of snails
  • Cornu aspersum, species of brown garden snail, formerly known as Helix aspersa
• One of two horn claspers associated with the penis of a bee drone

See also

• Le Cornu, a surname
• Corneanu (disambiguation)
• Cornetu (disambiguation)
• Corni (disambiguation)
• Cornus (disambiguation)
• Horn (disambiguation)