Stigma

(stig’-mah) [oriyfia, point]. A small spot or mark, especially a spot of hemorrhage in the palm or sole corresponding to the nail-marks of Christ, occurring in hysteric persons. 2. Any one of the marks or signs characteristic of a condition; generally used in the plural, as hysteric stigmata. 3. That part of a pistil which receives the pollen. Stigmata maydis. See Zea mays. 600