Nevertheless the filament is a complete tube formed of chitinous substance and clothed externally by ciliated epithelium, internally by endothelium and lacunar tissue--a form of connective tissue--as shown in fig.
Lacunar tonsillitis sometimes subsides by spontaneous evacuation of the pent-up contents of secretion and desquamation, the parts returning to their normal condition.
The deposit in follicular orlacunar tonsillitis or angina is pulpy and not membraniform.
This should be termed lacunar tonsillitis, as suggested by Wagner.
In many instances the parenchymatous inflammation is a direct extension of the lacunar inflammation.
Lacunar resorption also occasionally follows lesions of the central nervous system, part of the atrophy being due to disuse of the limbs from the paralysis, and part of it also being dependent in some indirect way upon the nerve lesion.
A mere lack of use of bones may also lead to a certain amount of atrophy from lacunar resorption.
This may be seen after amputations, where the stump of bone which is left from the amputation slowly undergoes lacunar resorption and sometimes a marked diminution in size.
It may be marked in the skull and in the long bones, and in many cases of fracture of the neck of the femur, a moderate amount of lacunar resorption precedes the fracture which results from slight violence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacunar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
