A small fork or forked structure; a variant or diminutive form of furcula used in anatomical contexts.
Derived from Latin 'furca' (fork) with the diminutive suffix '-ule', creating an even smaller version of the already-small furcula structure.
This word is so obscure that it barely appears in modern dictionaries, but medieval anatomists loved creating nested diminutives like this—'furca' became 'furcula' which became 'furcule', like Russian nesting dolls but for Latin words!
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