crescent (redirected from crescentic)

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

[kres′ənt]

Etymology: L, crescere, to increase

1  adj, shaped like a new moon.

2  n, a structure that has this shape.

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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.

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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