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Semilunar   Listen
adjective
Semilunar  adj.  Shaped like a half moon.
Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n.
Semilunar valves, or Sigmoid valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.






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"Semilunar" Quotes from Famous Books



... which overhung a deep, hollow glen. At the tangled bottom of this glen, a frothing brook leaped and clamored over the rough stones in its channel. A large spreading beech canopied the knoll, and beneath its boughs a semilunar seat admitted four persons. It had a fine effect to enter the Gothic library at dusk, as Miss Seward says she first entered it. The prismatic lantern diffused a light gloomily glaring, assisted by the paler flames of the little lamps on the chimney-piece. ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... (Plate I. fig. 4), SIR ASTLEY COOPER'S, is thus described by Mr. Hodgson:[4]—"A semilunar incision is made through the integuments in the direction of the fibres of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. One extremity of the incision will be situated near the spine of the ilium; ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... which a fragment is shown in Fig. 314. It is a fringed mantle, three feet in length and nearly the same in depth, obtained from an ancient tomb. The body is made up of separately woven bands, upon which disk-like and semilunar figures representing human faces are stitched, covering the surface in horizontal rows. To the center of these rosette-like parts clusters of tassels of varying sizes are attached. The fringe, which ...
— A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament • William H. Holmes



Words linked to "Semilunar" :   semilunar bone, crescent-shaped, semilunar valve, lunate, crescent



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