clavus

[kley-vuhs, klah-]

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noun, plural cla·vi

[-vahy, -vee] .

Psychiatry. an intense headache in which the pain is likened to one that would be produced by a sharp object driven into the skull.

(in ancient Rome) a vertical stripe or band of purple worn on the tunic by senators and equites.

Entomology. clavola.

Origin:
1800–10; < Latin: literally, nail; akin to claudere to close

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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clavus cla·vus (klā'vəs, klä'-)
n. pl. cla·vi (-vī')

See corn.
A condition resulting from healing of a granuloma of the foot in yaws, in which a core falls out, leaving an erosion.

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