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Bohn's nodules (medicine) and canon(2) (iou)


Bohn's nodules (medicine)


Bohn's nodules


Tiny multiple cysts in newborns. They are found at the junction of the hard and soft palates and along buccal and lingual parts of the dental ridges and are derived from epithelial remnants of mucous gland tissue.


canon(2) (iou)



canon noun2. ME.
[Old French canonie from ecclesiastical Latin canonicus use as noun of adjective (see CANONIC), assim. to CANON noun1.]
Ecclesiastical.
A member of an order of clergy living in a clergy-house or within the precincts of a cathedral etc. in accordance with the canons of the church. ME.
canon regular, regular canon: living according to a rule and so renouncing private property. secular canon: not living according to a rule.
Each of the resident ecclesiastics responsible, under the dean, for a cathedral. M16.
honorary canon a titular non-residential non-stipendiary member of a cathedral chapter. minor canon, petty canon a member of the clergy who assists in the daily service of a cathedral but is not a member of the chapter.
canoness noun (a) a member of a community of women living according to an ecclesiastical rule as opp. to having taken perpetual vows; (b) a woman holding a prebend or canonry: L17.
canonship noun = CANONRY 1 M16.