lunate

• “If the terms lunate, tunulate or crefcent-JJjaped be objected to, we may ufe the periphrafis, JJjaped like a crcfccni, for any form of a leaf, &c. refembling the moon in any period of her firfi: quarter; fince tills term does not occur very frequently.”

  Internet Archive: The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...

• “Frenum: that which holds things together: a lunate or triangular portion at the inner and hinder base of the wing in Odonata and Trichoptera; see tendo.”

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

• “Fruiting in summer: Plant fleshy, sterile part mostly with lunate segments.”

  The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

• “VESPERUGO TICKELLI. HABITAT.--Chybassa, Jashpur, and Sirguja. DESCRIPTION.--Head broad and flat; labial glands developed; ears moderate, rounded above; outer edge straight, emarginate opposite base of tragus, terminating in a small lobe; tragus lunate; tail long; last vertebra free. The face is more clad with fur than in other species of this genus; fur of the body pale, straw brown above, pale buff beneath.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “The lunate may be displaced forward by forcible dorsiflexion of the hand, and forms a projection beneath the flexor tendons; there is usually loss of sensibility in the distribution of the ulnar nerve in the hand.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “The navicular (scaphoid) and lunate (semilunar) are those most commonly fractured, usually by indirect violence, by forced dorsiflexion from a fall on the extended hand.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “In her estimation, experts misinterpreted some of the intricate crevices and lumps on this brain cast, leading to the mistaken assumption that a feature called the lunate sulcus was in a position similar to ours, when the lunate sulcus was actually in a position more similar to nonhuman apes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bones That Tell a Tale

• “In one section, Ms. Falk declares: "Dart had mistakenly identified the lambdoid suture of the skull that had been imprinted on Taung's endocast as the lunate sulcus!”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bones That Tell a Tale

• “I think fish with lunate tail fins (meaning crescent or sickle-shaped) such as tuna, various jacks, and marlin can exert more proportionately more force than those with broad tails such as bass or trout.”

  Uncategorized Blog Posts

• “In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma; compare IC for Jesus in Greek.”

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