Plural form of 'canthus,' referring to multiple eye corners or angles where eyelids meet.
From Latin plural formation of 'canthus' (Greek 'kanthos'), using the Latin '-i' plural ending common in medical and anatomical terminology.
While 'canthi' is the more common English medical plural, 'canthuthi' represents alternative pluralization patterns in medical Latin—it shows how medical terminology sometimes preserves older or variant Latin forms! Learning medical plurals is like discovering the rules of a secret language doctors speak.
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