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A very small projection like a nipple, especially those on the tongue.

Nipple-shaped prominence, as papilla of skin.

One of the minute elevations on the skin, esp. on the upper surface of the tongue and on the tips of the fingers, and in which the nerves terminate: (bot.) a nipple-like protuberance:-pl. PAPILLAE.

A glandular hair with one secreting cell above the epidermis level ; an accessory adhesive organ with retractile tip, of some Trematodes ; a conical dermal structure on Birds, the beginning of a feather; one of various small projections of the corium of the tongue, and eminences on the skin.

Papille-diminutive, perhaps, from papa, one of the earliest cries of the infant, ascribed to a craving for food. The end of the breast, the nipple. See Nipple. An eminence similar to a nipple. A name given to small eminences, more or less prominent, at the surface of several parts, particularly of the skin and mucous membranes, in which latter situation they are also called villi. See Villous. They appear formed by the ultimate expansion of the vessels and nerves, and are susceptible, in some cases, of a kind of erection. They are also called Papillae nervosae seu Nerveae, P. Pyramidales, Nervous papillae, (F.) Papilles ou Papilles nerveuses, Houppes nerveuses.

The nipple. [Lat.]

Any minute soft or fleshy prominence or nipple-shaped projection. [Lat.]

See optic disk, [Lat.]

n. [Latin] The pap or nipple;—one of the minute elevations of the surface of the skin, tongue, &c.