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