homunculus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A small, artificially created human or human-like being.
A small human.
A miniature adult, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

/hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/ /həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/ /hoʊˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/ en-us-homunculus.ogg

homunculus homunculi homunculuses homonculus

Borrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

homo homunculine manikin

cortical homunculus homuncular homunculus argument

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