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semilunar

 [sem″e-loo´nar]
shaped like a half-moon or crescent.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

lu·nar

(lū'năr),
1. Relating to the moon or to a month.
See also: crescentic.
2. Resembling the moon in shape, especially a half moon.
See also: crescentic. Synonym(s): lunate (1) [TA], semilunar
3. Relating to silver (the moon was the symbol for silver in alchemy).
[L. luna, moon]
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lu·nar

(lū'năr)
1. Relating to the moon or to a month.
2. Resembling the moon in shape, especially a half moon.
Synonym(s): lunate (1) , semilunar.
3. Relating to silver (the moon was the symbol of silver in alchemy).
See also: crescentic
[L. luna, moon]
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semilunar

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semilunate

Shaped like a half moon or crescent.
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Cross-correlations between the quarterly and semilunar dynamics of settlement and onshore-wind stress produced essentially the same results as analyses of daily dynamics (Table 3, for brevity only results of quarterly analyses are shown).
The semilunar coronally reposi- tioned flap combined with a frenectomy to obtain root coverage over the maxillary central incisors".
At early embryonic stages endocardial cushion tissue is positioned in the primitive AVC and OFT, which later on will contribute to formation of the TV and MV and Ao and PT semilunar valves.
DORV morphology should be characterized by an exact description of the ventricular septal defect (VSD) in relationship to the semilunar valves, of the great arteries to each other, the presence of pulmonary outflow tract obstruction or aortic outflow tract obstruction, the tricuspid-pulmonary annular distance, finally the presence of other, associated cardiac pathology (2).
Material--OMNH 74688-74689, sesamoids; 74690, coprolite; 74692, fragment of radius-ulna with partial semilunar notch; 74693, vertebral centrum.
The menisci are two semilunar biconcave disks that reside within the medial and lateral tibio-femoral articulations (Fig.
Synchronous oogenesis during the semilunar spawning cycle of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina.
The knee joint menisci are a pair of wedge shaped (in cross-section), semilunar fibrocartilage structures that are attached to the tibial plateau along the periphery via the coronary ligaments and to the femur via the ligaments of Humphrey and Wrisberg.
Abertura semilunar, con el labio externo afilado, levemente dilatado en el margen columelar y sin callosidades en la union parietal.
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