MENISCUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A crescent.

2.
n.

A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.

3.
n.

An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

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