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flocculus
(flok´u-lәs)
pl. floc´culi
a small tuft, as of wool or similar material, or small mass of other fibrous material such as one of the flakes of a flocculent
solution.
one of the small paired, partially detached lateral lobules continuous with the nodule of the cerebellum, separated from each cerebellar hemisphere by a fissure; they form part of the flocculonodular lobe.

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