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punctum

NOUN
  1. (anatomy) a point or small area

How To Use punctum In A Sentence

  • Goins explained that each eyelid has one punctum, a tiny opening that drains tears away from the eye.
  • Forgiveness was the punctum I found in Unforgiven and which is already there in the text, if ambiguously.
  • In view of the history of recurring meningitis, search of the child's skin then showed a small punctum in the back of the neck.
  • Perhaps studium and punctum merge in one detail: look at my mother's hemline – she never wore a dress that short before or since. The power of the holiday photo
  • Mr. Bowman found that by slitting up the inferior punctum and canaliculus as far as the caruncula, several advantages were gained: -- (1.) A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • Barthes writes, ‘However lightning-like it may be, the punctum has, more or less potentially, a power of expansion.’
  • It's that punctum thing that Barthes talks about, I think, that's the coil & spring you talk about, and that's not about narrative. Scale
  • A small amount of cloudy fluid was expressed through a central punctum within the swelling.
  • The true antecedent of the modern vanishing point is Guidobaldo's punctum concursus (point of concurrence).
  • I am equally as scathing at “old lags” doing likewise. punctum on 12 March 2010 STARSHIP – “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” | FreakyTrigger
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