AREOLA
- colored ring (as about the nipple, a vesicle, or a pustule)
- ring of color, as around the human nipple
- small interstice, as between the fibers of connective tissue
- a small area between things or about something
- a small space in a network of leaf veins [n AREOLAE, AREOLAS] : AREOLAR [adj], AREOLATE [adj]
- a small space in a network of leaf veins, also AREOLE [n AREOLAS or AREOLAE]