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Insula vs Inula - What's the difference?

insula | inula |

As a noun insula

is isle.

As a proper noun inula is

.

insula

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (historical) A block of buildings in a Roman town.
  • (anatomy) The insular cortex, a structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
  • * {{quote-news, 2007, February 6, Sandra Blakeslee, A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects, newspaper=New York Times citation
    • , passage=All mammals have insulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said. }}
  • * 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 608:
    • The insula registers our physical gut feelings, including the sensation of a distended stomach and other inner states like nausea, warmth, a full bladder, and a pounding heart.
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    inula

    English

    (wikipedia inula) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several plants of the genus Inula , such as elecampane.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:
  • *:In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
  • The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.
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