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Definition of Semilunar

1. Adjective. Resembling the new moon in shape.

Definition of Semilunar

1. a. Shaped like a half moon.

2. n. The semilunar bone.

Definition of Semilunar

1. Adjective. Shaped like a half-moon; crescent-shaped. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Semilunar

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Semilunar

1. Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone, the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle. The semilunar bone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Semilunar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"Its orifice is guarded by the pulmonary semilunar valves. ... The semilunar valves, three in number,2 guard the orifice of the pulmonary artery. ..."

2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The superior surfaces of the scaphoid, semilunar, and pyramidal bones form, when in apposition, a continuous convexity which, corresponds with the concavity ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"The semilunar bone (Fig. 154) may be distinguished by its deep concavity and ... The external surface presents a narrow, flattened, semilunar facet for ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Catarrhal inflammation of the semilunar fold and lachrymal caruncle. ... The conjunctiva forming the semilunar fold, and investing the lachrymal caruncle is ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Catarrhal inflammation of the semilunar fold and lachrymal ... The conjunctiva forming the semilunar fold, and investing the lachrymal caruncle is the ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"Catarrhal inflammation of the semilunar fold and lacrymal caruncle. The conjunctiva forming the semilunar fold and investing the lacrymal caruncle is the ..."

7. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"As the manner in which the semilunar valves are closed does not seem to be well understood, an account of some experiments conducted by me some time ago ..."

8. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1907)
"semilunar.1 (Plates XLIII. and XLVII.) In the last few years the .»•-rays have shown that dislocation of tlie semilunar bone, either alone or in combination ..."

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