How To Use lacuna In A Sentence
- Arranged round these vessels are circles of the formative elements, the bone corpuscles or osteoblasts (b.c.) each embedded in bony matrix in a little bed, the lacuna, and communicating one with another by fine processes through canaliculi in the matrix, which processes are only to be seen clearly in decalcified bone (See Section 70). Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
- The narrative was involving, yet contained a couple of irritating lacunae. Times, Sunday Times
- In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.
- The calcified matrix of bone consists of cavities known as lacunae that are connected via a network of canals known as canaliculi, which carries interstitial fluid through the skeletal system. News from The Scientist
- I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic. Preface
- The ceiling is adorned with majolica lacunars.
- As Prof. Nettleship has pointed out, this seems to indicate that there are two words, _laquear_ from _laqueus_, meaning chain or network, and _lacuar_ or _lacunar_ from _lacus_, meaning sunk work. The Aeneid of Virgil
- Surviving manuscripts have been preserved by chance, so there will always be lacunae in the documentary record.
- The reflected inguinal ligament is a layer of tendinous fibers of a triangular shape, formed by an expansion from the lacunar ligament and the inferior crus of the subcutaneous inguinal ring. IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen
- That said, there are clear lacunae in the programme set out so far. Times, Sunday Times
