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crescent /cres·cent/ (kres´int)

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.

myopic crescent

A white or grayish white crescent-shaped area in the fundus of the eye caused by atrophy of the choroid.

crescent, myopic

A white area of sclera seen adjacent to the temporal side of the optic disc mainly in pathological myopia, but also sometimes in non-pathological myopia. The choroid and retinal pigment epithelium have atrophied in the crescent area, allowing the sclera to be seen. Syn. myopic conus; myopic scleral crescent.

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myopic crescent (redirected from scleral crescent)

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