A small drop or droplet, variant of guttula used in scientific and medical terminology.
A variant spelling of 'guttula,' from Latin 'guttula' (small drop). The '-ule' ending is another common diminutive suffix in English scientific terms.
The existence of 'guttule' and 'guttula' as near-synonyms shows how scientific terminology developed differently across regions—Latin-speaking scholars had multiple ways to express 'very small drop' before standardization.
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