Injuries to the head not infrequently produce lacunaein the memory.
Many of the lacunae in this have been supplied from another manuscript by W.
Going from the lacunae are smaller canals which take on the name canaliculae, and joining all the lacunae together, making the appearance of concentric circles, we have the lamellae.
About a fourth, comprehending with lacunae the first portion of the dialogue, is preserved in several MSS.
We may fill up the lacunae of the Timaeus by the help of the Republic or Phaedrus: we may identify the same and other with the (Greek) of the Philebus.
As most students are aware, the Biblical deluge-story is composite, being made up of two narratives, the few lacunae in which are due to the ancient redactor who worked them together.
The lacunae of the earlier story are here supplied.
Adjoining lacunaeare supposed to fuse to form larger cavernae and these finally merge and constitute the final glaucoma cup.
We must also not forget that there are lacunae in the child's comprehension of what it perceives.
If the child is only half-interested, it will try to fill out these lacunae by reflection and synthesis, and may conceivably make serious blunders.
By stretching the urethra, we render its sides sufficiently tense for facilitating the passage of the instrument, and the orifices of the lacunaebecome closed.
Some of these lacunae are nearly an inch long, and all of them open in an oblique direction forwards.
Small irregular tubercles of organized lymph, and tumours formed by the lacunae distended by their own secretion, their orifices being closed by inflammation, are also found to obstruct the urethral canal.
By this an independent ceiling was created; and, as the boarding was laid upon the beams and not fastened to their lower side, this gave rise to the formation of lacunae or long coffers.
Well-developed bone-lacunae are very abundant, many exhibiting short branching canaliculi, and most of the others very irregular in shape, evidently furnished with canaliculi which cannot be seen from lack of infiltration.
Near the margin of the ossicle, especially in its more translucent parts, the bone-lacunae are less elongated, more irregular in shape, and apparently not arranged in any definite order.
The lacunae are involutions of the mucous membrane, and in health furnish a slightly turbid mucoid secretion which serves to lubricate the parts and, as is generally believed, to facilitate deglutition.
Microscopic sections showed the large lacunae filled with corpuscles, blood-pigment in different stages of degeneration, {353} and the papillae much hypertrophied.
Calcareous change occurs in these contents of the lacunae in some instances.
A severer form of the malady involves the lacunae in addition--several or all of them.
The mildest form of the malady is a catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membrane covering the gland, and does not extend along the lacunae which dip inward from the surface and divaricate toward the interior of the organ.
All lacunae in our present system are explained by Darwin as due to the extinction of the forms, which previously filled them.
Likewise I hope to point out the weak places and the lacunae in our present knowledge, and to show the way in which each of you may try to contribute his part towards the advancement of science in this subject.
Considerable care has been bestowed upon the indication of the lacunae in our knowledge of the subject and the methods by which they may be filled.
On the other hand it will point out the deficiencies of available evidence, and indicate the ways by which the lacunae may gradually be filled.
We can judge of the lacunae in them both from the commentaries that have been preserved and from the criticisms which Rashi frequently added as an accompaniment to his citations.
But even conventions which designedly are full of lacunae have their value.
He resigned himself to the study of the embryology of sea-urchins in order to fill a few lacunae in his previous researches.
His hasty University studies necessarily left lacunae in his general knowledge, a fact which he afterwards keenly deplored.
From Villefranche we went to Trieste, where Metchnikoff studied star-fish and filled the lacunae in his researches on the origin of the mesoderm.
Thus dittographies are frequent and lacunae of occasional occurrence, but the version is singularly free from the glosses and corrections of unscrupulous scribes.
The Middle Ages, after their fashion, supplied the lacunae in what they deemed his too meagre biography.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacunae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
