lacunar
IPA: ɫɑkˈunɝ
noun
- (architecture) A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit.
- (architecture) A ceiling containing panels of this kind.
adjective
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a lacuna.
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Examples of "lacunar" in Sentences
- The way those deaths occurred, any reaction is possible including lacunar amnesia.
- This platform is now submerged and gradually being covered by recent lacunar sediments.
- It extends lateralward from the base of the lacunar ligament (Fig. 394) along the pectineal line, to which it is attached.
- The portion which is reflected from the inguinal ligament at the pubic tubercle is attached to the pectineal line and is called the lacunar ligament.
- The following structures require further description, viz., the subcutaneous inguinal ring, the intercrural fibers and fascia, and the inguinal, lacunar, and reflected inguinal ligaments.
- The reflected inguinal ligament is a layer of tendinous fibers of a triangular shape, formed by an expansion from the lacunar ligament and the inferior crus of the subcutaneous inguinal ring.
- As Prof. Nettleship has pointed out, this seems to indicate that there are two words, _laquear_ from _laqueus_, meaning chain or network, and _lacuar_ or _lacunar_ from _lacus_, meaning sunk work.
- I would like to emphasize one of the newer features of the pathologic anatomy of glaucoma, one which has received too little attention in this country: the _lacunar_ or _cavernous atrophy_ of the _optic nerve_.
- The cranial dura mater consists of white fibrous tissue and elastic fibers arranged in flattened laminæ which are imperfectly separated by lacunar spaces and bloodvessels into two layers, endosteal and meningeal.
- In addition to the deterioration of the landscape, the decline in the mangrove forest has created effects throughout the lacunar system such as the loss of habitats for a large number of species of fish, birds, and bentonic organisms.