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Thelium vs Thecium - What's the difference?

thelium | thecium |

As nouns the difference between thelium and thecium

is that thelium is a nipple or papilla while thecium is (mycology|dated) the hymenium.

thelium

English

Noun

(thelia)
  • A nipple or papilla.

    • Usage notes

    Originally an anatomical term, this word seems to have fallen out of usage, and appears to only be documented in Webster's NID, Second Ed., 1934. Notably, it was not included in Webster's Third NID, 1961 and may have gone out of usage by then. It is not in current usage in the medical field, where the Latin word papilla is the standard term.

    Related terms

    * thelion * thelitis

    References

    , 1934

    thecium

    English

    Noun

    (thecia)
  • (mycology, dated) The hymenium
  • *{{quote-book, 1952, Frederick Lyle Wynd, The Fungi, by=Ernst Albert Gäumann citation
    • , passage=The hymenium, or thecium , is generated endogenously within the hyphal layer.}}
  • (mycology, dated) The internal hyphal layers of an apothecium

    • Related terms

    *theca *Thecia

    Derived terms

    {{der3, apothecium , epithecium , hypothecium , parathecium , perithecium , pseudothecium}}

    References

    * LIAS Glossary