Lewis Short
hăbēnŭla (noun F) : dim.habena, II. A.
* A small strip of diseased flesh which is cut out from the body: tum ab ora vel vulsella vel hamo apprehensam tamquam habenulam excidere,Cels. 7, 28; id. 7, 7, 8 fin.; 20fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary