Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semilunar \Sem`i*lu"nar\, a.
     Shaped like a half moon.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semilunar \Sem`i*lu"nar\, n. (Anat.)
     The semilunar bone.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lunar \Lu"nar\, n.
     1. (Astron.) A lunar distance.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Anat.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the
        carpus; -- called also {semilunar}, and {intermedium}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  semilunar
      adj : resembling the new moon in shape [syn: {crescent(a)},
            {crescent-shaped}, {lunate}]

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