stigma

• a symbol of disgrace or infamy
• the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
• an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
• a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
• A mark made with a burning iron
• Any mark of infamy or disgrace
• That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid
• A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole
• A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards
• One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods
• One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids
• One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus
• A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane
• Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ

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