Areola vs. Aureola

Areolanoun

(anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.

Areolanoun

(anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.

Areolanoun

(anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.

Areolanoun

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Areolanoun

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

Areolanoun

small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing

Areolanoun

small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite

Areolanoun

a small circular area, in particular the ring of pigmented skin surrounding a nipple.

Areolanoun

any of the small spaces between lines or cracks on a leaf or an insect's wing.

Areolanoun

a reddened patch around a spot or papule.

Areola

The human areola (areola mammae, or ) is the pigmented area on the breast around the nipple. Areola, more generally, is a small circular area on the body with a different histology from the surrounding tissue, or other small circular areas such as an inflamed region of skin.

Aureolanoun

Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.

Aureolanoun

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Aureolanoun

The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

Aureolanoun

A halo, actual or figurative.

Aureolanoun

See Areola, 2.

Aureolanoun

the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible from earth during a solar eclipse, or in outer space by the use of special instruments; a corona{5}.

Aureola

An aureola or aureole (diminutive of Latin aurea, ) is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. In Romance languages, the noun Aureola is usually more related to the disc of light surrounding the head of sacred figures and that in English is called Halo or Nimbus.