crescent /cres·cent/ (kres´int)
crescent
crescent [kres´ent]
crescent
1. shaped like a new moon.
2. something with this shape.crescen´tic
crescents of Giannuzzi crescent-shaped patches of serous cells surrounding the mucous tubercles in seromucous glands.
myopic crescent a crescentic staphyloma in the fundus of the eye in myopia.
sublingual crescent the crescent-shaped area on the floor of the mouth, bounded by the lingual wall of the mandible and the base of the tongue.
cres·cent (kr s  nt)n. Something having concave and convex edges terminating in points. adj. Crescent-shaped. cres·cen tic (kr-snt k) adj. |
crescent
[kres′ənt]
Etymology: L, crescere, to increase
1 adj, shaped like a new moon.
2 n, a structure that has this shape.
Crescent
A sharply circumscribed, smoothly curved radiolucency or light-coloured mass on a dark background, which converges at both ends
Pathology—kidneys Epithelial crescents are curved, semilunar lesions seen by low-power light micoscopy which correspond to extracapillary proliferation of Bowman’s—glomerular—capsular epithelium, and acquire a fibroblast-like spindled morphology, possibly stimulated by release of fibrinogen from basement membrane; crescents may be accompanied by collagen and fibrin deposition, mononuclear cell proliferation, and are seen in primary and secondary glomerular disease
Pathology—kidneys Epithelial crescents are curved, semilunar lesions seen by low-power light micoscopy which correspond to extracapillary proliferation of Bowman’s—glomerular—capsular epithelium, and acquire a fibroblast-like spindled morphology, possibly stimulated by release of fibrinogen from basement membrane; crescents may be accompanied by collagen and fibrin deposition, mononuclear cell proliferation, and are seen in primary and secondary glomerular disease
crescent [kres´ent]
1. shaped like a new moon.
2. something with this shape. adj., adj crescen´tic.
Giannuzzi's c's crescent-shaped patches of serous cells surrounding the mucous tubercles in mixed glands.
sublingual crescent the crescent-shaped area on the floor of the mouth, bounded by the lingual wall of the mandible and the base of the tongue.
crescent
1. shaped like a new moon.
2. a crescent-shaped structure.
glomerular crescent
proliferation of parietal epithelial cells lining Bowman's capsule in the kidney; may protrude into Bowman's space and eventually lead to destruction of the glomerulus.
crescent
Quarter moon adjective Referring to a sharply circumscribed, smoothly curved radiolucent or light-colored mass in a dark background, which converges at both ends
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