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[syn: crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Semilunar \Sem`i*lu"nar\, a.
Shaped like a half moon.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Semilunar \Sem`i*lu"nar\, n. (Anat.)
The semilunar bone.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lunar \Lu"nar\, n.
1. (Astron.) A lunar distance.
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2. (Anat.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the
carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
semilunar
adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a),
crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]