title: Torus (disambiguation)
text: # Torus (disambiguation)
  
  A torus, pl. tori, is a type of surface.
  
  Torus may also refer to:
  
  ## Music
  
  * Torus (album), a 2013 album by Sub Focus
  * Torus, a 2017 EP by Merzbow (Masami Akita)
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Architecture
  
  * A semicircular molding – see Molding (decorative)#Types
  
  ### Astrophysics
  
  * Three-torus model of the universe, a model for describing the shape of the universe
  
  ### Biology
  
  * Receptacle (botany), the thickened part of a stem from which the flower and fruit parts grow
  * Sagittal keel, or sagittal torus, a structure found in crania
  * Torus, a structure of the xylem
  
  ### Mathematics
  
  * Solid torus, a solid whose surface is a torus.
  * Torus knot
  * Algebraic torus
  * Umbilic torus
  * Genus-2 surface, also called "double torus"
  * Maximal torus
  * Clifford torus
  
  ### Medicine
  
  * Torus palatinus, a bony growth on the palate
  * Torus mandibularis, a bony growth on the mandible
  * Torus tubarius, the base of the opening of Eustachian tube into the nasopharynx
  * Torus fracture, a term used in radiology to describe an incomplete fracture of the distal radius in children where there is no obvious fracture line on any radiograph.
  
  ### Nuclear physics
  
  * Torus (nuclear physics), a subtype of tokamak
  * Joint European Torus, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Torus (housing association)
  * Torus - a novel by James Follett - 1990
  