How To Use Lunula In A Sentence
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(Gr. [Greek: koilae], a hollow) or _angulus lunularis_, biconcave.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Friends brought presents, especially neck-bands in the form of a half-moon (_lunulae_), and the golden balls (_bullae_) which were worn as a charm round the neck until the attainment of manhood.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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Durham's inclusion of a nonlunulate, Iheringiella, in the family also meant that Labille's and Mortensen's most conspicuous diagnostic character, the anal lunule, no longer formed part of the diagnosis.
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Above: A Lunula Butterfly is just one of the many inhabitants in Paul's 250 gallon tank.
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When the weapon is outside of the spheroid, its system is limited in its search to a lunular segment of a sphere.
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Instead, the safe held cosmetics and an envelope with a Bronze Age gold necklace in the shape of a crescent moon known as a lunula and two gold discs.
The Money Times
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The phalanges preternaturally straight, the knuckles pale and taut, the lunulae fastidiously cleared of cuticle, as perfect in their crescents as any moon over Arabia.
Kalooki Nights
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Near the root of the nail, the papillæ are smaller, less vascular, and have no regular arrangement, and here the tissue of the nail is not firmly adherent to the connective-tissue stratum but only in contact with it; hence this portion is of a whiter color, and is called the lunula on account of its shape.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument
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Below the umbones, the shell margin is folded inward forming a deep lunula and gaping between both valves.
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• The lunula: The whitish, half-moon shape at the base of your nail underneath the plate.
You Being Beautiful
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Flosculus: a small, tubular lunulate anal organ with a central style, in certain Fulgorids.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
Caesars’ Wives
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In rare cases, different DIMSUFs yield diverse meanings: lune ` moon '> lunettes ` pair of spectacles' but also > lunule ` lunula, 'the white area at the base of the fingernail being crescent-shaped.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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Clipeus erat vacuus, in quo olim fuisse dicebant laminam æream, et eius in ea itidem cælata insignia, Leonem videlicet argenteum, cui ad pectus lunula rubea in campo cæruleo, quem Limbus ambiret denticulatus ex auro.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Therefore, we cannot support Durham's derivation of New World lunulate clades from an ancestor in common with protoscutellids, either.
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The lateral sides of the nail plate show exaggerated convexity, the lunula disappears, and the nail takes on a yellow hue.
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Injuries classified as zone II are located distal to the lunula of the nail bed and are complicated by the bony exposure of the distal phalanx.
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The study has also resulted in a clearer picture of the biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Monophorasteridae, and their great significance in the evolution of lunulate sand dollars in the Americas.
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The whitish crescent-shaped area at the base of the nail is called the lunula.
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Mooi also established that other lunulate taxa such as the Astriclypeidae Stefanini, 1912, were not more closely related to the mellitids than monophorasterids.
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The lunula is overlapped by the cuticle, which protects those keratin cells.
CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006
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Near the root is a little crescentric-shaped white portion called the lunula.
The Art of Living in Australia
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In patients with severe renal disease, the proximal portion of the nail bed can turn white, obliterating the lunula and giving a half-brown, half-white appearance, also called half-and-half nails.
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It is best distinguished from the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (P. canadensis) by the entirely yellow lunular submarginal spots on the underside of the hindwing.
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
Caesars’ Wives
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_Marchantia polymorpha_ and _Lunularia_ spread largely by the gemmae formed in the special gemma-cups on the thallus, and occur commonly in greenhouses.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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It is situated precisely in that same lunula in which you find the form of the gap, the rim.
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Expression of ribs, and the lunular pit in Bothrocorbula, are used to a lesser extent for species discrimination.
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They also have important biogeographic implications, given that lunulate sand dollars are today rather rare in the regions in which monophorasterids were once common.
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The whitish, half-moon-shaped area at the base of your nail is called the lunula (LOO-nu-luh).
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The whitish crescent moon at the nail base, under the nail plate, is called the lunula, and the tissue overlapping the nail at the base is the cuticle.
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The vane guide plate is inserted in the lunular hollow formed by the curved walls of the vane.
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A long, simple, sleeved tunic bordered with a purple stripe was the standard uniform for both freeborn boys and girls in Rome, and a protective neck chain called a bulla in the case of boys and a moon-shaped lunula for girls the moon being the symbol of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity their only adornment.
Caesars’ Wives
