flocculus

1. A small fluffy mass or tuft.
2. Anatomy. Either of two small lobes on the lower posterior border of the cerebellum.
3. Astronomy. Any of various cloudlike masses of gases appearing as bright or dark patches on the surface of the sun.

[New Latin, diminutive of Latin floccus, tuft of wool.]

1. A small fluffy mass or tuft.
2. Either of a pair of small lobes on the posterior border of the cerebellum, forming part of the vestibular part of the cerebellum.

Pl. flocculi [L.]
1. a small tuft or mass, as of wool or other fibrous material.
2. a small mass on the lower side of each cerebellar hemisphere, continuous with the nodule of the vermis.

Flocculus can refer to:

• Flocculus (cerebellar): Either of a pair of small lobes on the posterior border of the cerebellum, forming part of the vestibular part of the cerebellum.
• In Astronomical Science: (Solar reference), i.e.; A solar flocculus. Flocculus (pl. flocculi) - A highly illuminated sector or region of a solar surface as seen through observation in monochrome light of a chosen spectral line, in visible, or hyperspectral wavelengths.

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