What's the difference between hiatus and lacuna?

Hiatus


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Hiatus
  • (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
  • (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
  • (2) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
  • (3) Only the rats with a 30-min hiatus between the 15- and 25-min bouts of RAO had significantly worse renal failure than controls subjected to a single 25-min ischemic event.
  • (4) In the paper, the authors stress the importance of the phreno-esophageal membrane in the gastro-esophageal closing mechanism and the necessity of reproducing its continuity during surgery of some sliding esophageal hiatus hernia.
  • (5) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
  • (6) Abrams currently has the production on a two-week hiatus to allow Ford to recover from a broken leg sustained on set.
  • (7) That hiatus officially ended after two weeks, but withdrawing dollars remained slow.
  • (8) These findings are reviewed in relation to the development of the diaphragm and it is suggested that inadequate muscle differentiation in the primative mesenchyme contributes both to the occurrence of congenital oesophageal hiatus hernia and nonrotation of the midgut.
  • (9) Reznor's reimagining of Nine Inch Nails follows a four-year hiatus , during which he mostly worked on film scores.
  • (10) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
  • (11) Failures were caused by esophageal stricture, respiratory distress, and hiatus hernia.
  • (12) Hiatus hernia is a common condition and while medical treatment is often sufficient, in some cases surgery may be necessary.
  • (13) Eight days after the repair he developed vomiting and hiatus hernia was revealed by barium esophagram.
  • (14) The injection into the extradural space through the hiatus sacralis always included the mixture of lidocaine with bupivacaine to speed up the beginning of the operation.
  • (15) Ali and Frazier were both undefeated, Ali had been on a forced hiatus for three-and-a-half years [for refusing to be drafted to Vietnam] and while he was gone Joe became what we knew as the undisputed heavyweight champion.
  • (16) Reduction in size of the esophageal hiatus, fixation of the esophagus to the diaphragmatic crus (esophagopexy), and a left fundic gastropexy were performed.
  • (17) A-79-year old man, treated by thoracic fundoplication for hiatus hernia with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux, 12 years previously, was examined for persistent cough and left basal pneumonia.
  • (18) Earlier in April, Air France, which recently resumed flights to Tehran after an eight-year hiatus, said its female cabin crew can refuse flights to Iran after protests by a number of the crew members over the compulsory hijab.
  • (19) The solutions help to fill a hiatus that exists between crystalloids and blood products.
  • (20) This represents a substantial improvement in comparison to the old generation of adhesives which allowed hiatuses of 10 to 50 micrometers to show.

Lacuna


Definition:

  • (n.) A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Casts of lacunae and canaliculi along with the underlying matrix could be visualized in these preparations.
  • (2) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
  • (3) As lacunae develop, both syncytial and cytotrophoblast are exposed to maternal blood.
  • (4) A cartilage is regarded as 'cell-rich' if its cells or their lacunae occupy more than half of the tissue volume.
  • (5) Intravenous urography reveals the presence of a persistent lacuna in a calix or of the pelvis, radiologic evidence of the abnormal papilla.
  • (6) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
  • (7) Localised tumour forms present either in the form of large polycyclic lacunae, sometimes invaginated or as vast ulcerations with irregular nodular margin, or as due to parietal infiltration and exoluminal development of the tumour mass and neighbouring adenopathy.
  • (8) The resorbant organ, rich in odontoclasts, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, and macrophages, formed prominent resorption lacunae in root dentin.
  • (9) Signs of osteolysis, such as enlarged osteocyte lacunae surrounded by a metachromatic zone in toluidine blue stained sections, and confluence of osteocyte lacunae in microradiographs, were compared with the fluorochrome labelling pattern.
  • (10) These had networks which formed the floor of each stomata and the roof of each lacunae.
  • (11) Besides greater detailization of the prevailing diameters of the pores, the method of poremetry allows the information to be obtained concerning the distribution of not only sizes of central canals of osteons but also smaller pores characterizing the system of lacunae of osteocytes and canals connecting them.
  • (12) Osteocyte viability within the femoral head was assessed by counting empty osteocyte lacunae in five random high-power fields of hematoxylin- and eosin-stained sections.
  • (13) Lipohyalinosis, initially referred to as the underlying pathologic vascular lesion specific for lacunae, is found most commonly in a subset of patients with severe hypertension associated with multilacunar dementia.
  • (14) These areas were characterized by a matrix of amorphous blue ground substance with lacunae that contained enlarged and slightly atypical cells.
  • (15) The condition was diagnosed by biopsy of a cranial bone lacuna.
  • (16) When ascorbic acid is added to the hormone-supplemented medium, differentiating chondrocytes organize their matrix leading to a cartilage-like structure with hypertrophic chondrocytes embedded in lacunae.
  • (17) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
  • (18) The second most common cause of dementia, cerebrovascular disease, produces dementia only when there is destruction of brain tissue, as in individuals who have multiple strokes or who have hypertensive vascular disease leading to multiple lacunae.
  • (19) Macrophages and giant cells did not form pits or resorption lacunae on the bone substrates as osteoclasts did.
  • (20) These MNC express an osteoclast phenotype and form resorption lacunae on calcified matrices.