crescentic

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In some instances, it will be the fibres of the deep crescentic (femoral) arch; in others, again, the neck of the sac itself, and produced by a thickening and contraction of the subserous and peritonaeal membranes where they lie within the circumference of the crural ring. "

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  1. Having the form of a crescent. In the shade of a very thick tree-top the sun-flecks are circular like the sun; but during an eclipse they are crescentic, or even annular. Le Conte, Light, p. 27. Douglas Bay, with its romantic headlands, crescentic shores, etc. Harper's Mag., LXXV. 520.
  2. In geology, noting certain crescentiform marks or ‘gouges’ attributed to the action of glacial ice. They are thought to be due to localized pressure, as in the process of gouging, and are therefore sometimes called crescentic gouges. G. K. Gilbert, in Science, Dec. 23, 1904, p. 894.

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  • Finally, a kidney biopsy specimen of crescentic glomerulonephritis was used for ISH to examine glomerular expression for CRHBP mRNA. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The expression of CRHBP mRNA in a single living podocyte was not changed between normal and crescentic glomerulus. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The ears and the cheeks are red, with a blaze of white extending from the nose up the forehead and ending between the ears in a crescentic curve.
  • Drumlins on the inner and outer shelves with pronounced crescentic and hairpin scours are also interpreted as products of catastrophic flow. —  RealClimate
  • Those weird looking ones are crescentic / barchan dunes and the long one is a linear dune. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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