LACUNA
\lakˈuːnə], \lakˈuːnə], \l_a_k_ˈuː_n_ə]\
Definitions of LACUNA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
By Oddity Software
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A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A small cavity in a mucous membrane, the parietes of which secrete a viscid humour. It is used synonymously with crypt. Also, the external opening of such cavity.
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Crypta, Fontanella -l. Cerebri, Infundibulum of the brain. Pituitary gland.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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