Cornu

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

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

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

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 hiatus
leading into the sacral canal
Uterine cornu, one of two uterine horns, located near the entry of the fallopian tube

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