SEMILUNAR

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, 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.

2.
n.

The semilunar bone.


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