lacuna
Lacuna or Lakune (from the Latin lacuna 'hole' , 'pit', also ' pool ', ' pond '; French lacune ) stands for:
- in philology a gap in a text, a gap in understanding, see Lacuna (philology)
- in biology (e.g. lacunae system of molluscs) and medicine (e.g. Lacuna see below) generally a cavity, a dimple, a depression, crevice, orifice in organs, tissues, bones or cartilage
- in medicine in particular the lacuna musculorum et vasorum , a lacuna in the previous sense at a point of passage for nerves or vessels
- Lacuna (genus) , in Latin form a genus from the subfamily of dimple snails (Lacuninae), see z. B. the species Lacuna pallidula and Lacuna vincta
- Lacuna Coil , a music band
- as Lacuna, Quartier Lacuna or Lacunaquartier a district of Chur in Switzerland
- Lacuna Glacier , a glacier in Alaska
La Lacune means:
- a play by Eugène Ionesco from 1966
lacunar means:
- in medical parlance, it is spongy, bulky or cave-like
See also:
Wiktionary: Lakune - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Lacunar , the cassette of a coffered ceiling (Lacunaria)
- Lacunosus , “incomplete”, a term from the cloud classification
- Lacuna Island , an island off the west coast of West Antarctic Graham Land
