crescent

crescent /cres·cent/ (kres´int)

1. shaped like a new moon.

2. something with this shape.crescen´tic

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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.

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cres·cent (krsnt)

n.

Something having concave and convex edges terminating in points.

adj.

Crescent-shaped.

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cres·centic (kr-sntk) adj.

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crescent

1. shaped like a new moon.

2. a crescent-shaped structure.

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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.