Insula vs Inula - What's the difference?
insula | inula |
(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
, 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:
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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As a noun insula
is isle.As a proper noun inula is
.insula
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- 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.