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Definition of Lacuna
1. Noun. A blank gap or missing part.
2. Noun. An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
Definition of Lacuna
1. n. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
Definition of Lacuna
1. Noun. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus. ¹
2. Noun. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar. ¹
3. Noun. (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light. ¹
4. Noun. (linguistics) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lacuna
1. an empty space or missing part [n -NAE or -NAS] : LACUNAL, LACUNARY, LACUNATE [adj]
Medical Definition of Lacuna
1. Small cavity or depression, for example: the space in bone where an osteoblast is found. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacuna
Literary usage of Lacuna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs Including Syphilis by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1889)
"Inflammation seals the orifice of the follicle, and the lacuna is converted into
a cyst containing pus. As the latter continues to he produced, ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1877)
"A lacuna IN ARRIAN. THE eighteenth chapter of the first book of Arrian's
Dissertations contains a lacuna which was first indicated by Upton (4to. Lond. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"The canaliculi which originate in one lacuna most frequently run into a neighboring
lacuna, or else into a neighboring Haversian canal ; some of them, ..."
4. A Treatise of cystoscopy and urethroscopy by Georges Luys (1918)
"Little polypus situated at the bottom of a lacuna of Morgagni. tion, ...
Two floating shreds were attached to the bottom of the lacuna. ..."
5. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Thus Miiller (Teubner text, 1898) assumes the lacuna, but does not bracket in 8;
in his annotated edition (1882) he makes no mark of lacuna. ..."
6. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1905)
"In the roof of the fossa navicularis lies the lacuna magna (Fig. ... This lacuna
varies greatly in size in different persons, being some- timi- entirely ..."
7. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"Line 2: on the left, a lacuna of some seventeen full letters. ... Line 4: a lacuna
of ca. fourteen or fifteen. Line 5: a lacuna of ca. twelve, ..."
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