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Definition of Lacunar
1. n. The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.
Definition of Lacunar
1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a lacuna ¹
2. Noun. (architecture) A coffer; a ceiling constructed of coffers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lacunar
1. a ceiling with recessed panels [n -NARS or -NARIA]
Medical Definition of Lacunar
1. Relating to a lacuna. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacunar
Literary usage of Lacunar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Throat and nose and their diseases by Lennox Browne, Isaac Lennox Browne, Mayo Collier, James Cagney, Vitruvius Harold Wyatt Wingrave (1899)
"lacunar epithelial cells, the parenchyma of the organ suffers sooner or later.
Perhaps the commonest form is that which, from its macroscopic appearance, ..."
2. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"medial half gradually widens at its attachment to the pubis, is more horizontal
in direction, and lies beneath the spermatic cord. The lacunar Ligament ..."
3. International Contributions to Medical Literature: "festschrift" in Honor of by Francis Huber, Frederic E. Sondern, Abraham Jacobi (1900)
"Male, 4 weeks old, distinct lacunae. Bacteriological examination : staphylococci.
5. Male, 8J months of age, distinct lacunar ..."
4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"This lacunar system was formerly universally called a blood vascular system, and
may still be allowed to retain this name, although a regular circulation in ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"On the other hand, the writer has published a series of cases of children who
presented all symptoms of acute catarrhal angina, with signs of lacunar ..."
6. Diseases of the Nose and Throat by J. Price-Brown (1900)
"lacunar TONSILLITIS. THIS disease, as its name implies, ... or, better, lacunar
tonsillitis, is clinically and histologically an independent pathological ..."
7. Nose and Throat Work for the General Practitioner by George Lyman Richards (1903)
"The acute may be divided into acute parenchymatous or general tonsillitis, and
acute lacunar tonsillitis, with the further subdivision of the lacunar type ..."
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