A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
Latin lacus = lake, hence, a small pond or gap, adjective, lacunar.
General term for a small pit or hollow cavity within or between the organs or tissues of the body.
a small, hollow space, such as those in which the osteoblasts lie within bones; plural, lacunae
(lah-KOO-nah) A chamber within bone or cartilage matrix that houses a cell (an osteocyte or chondrocyte). Plural form is lacunae.
Lacuna is a cavity within the matrix of cartilage or bone, occupied by a chondrocyte or osteocyte.
a blank gap or missing part
a gap in a manuscript, inscription or text
a gap in a manuscript , inscription , text, or a musical work
a gap or a place where something is missing like in an ancient manuscript where the paper has been worn away
a missing section of a papyrus
a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
a small space in bone containing an osteocyte
of Isoetes, a cavity within the leaves. pl. lacunae.
(pl. Lacunae): A space or void on a facade where an element is missing due to deterioration or removal.
Gaps in a text due to loss of ink or loss of papyrus.
A small cavity, pit or discontinuity in an anatomical structure
A gap or a missing portion in a manuscript. This is usually due to the deterioration of the manuscript over time.
(plural: lacunae lacuna - ditch, pit]. A small space. More specifically: 1) The cavity enveloping and occupied by chondrocytes and osteocytes; 2) The spaces which develop in the placenta and which will later fuse to form the intervillous lake.
Missing paint in a small area. Lacuna Examples
Chamber or internal air space.
lacuna (lat.), pl.: lacunae gap, interstice, cavity
In music, a lacuna is an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played. A lacuna acts as "negative music" to induce a state of serenity (or tension) in the listener through its contrast to "normal" music consisting of sounded notes. Though no notes are sounded during a lacuna, it is a purposeful and valid musical passage used for a specific effect in the context of the overall work.