What's the difference between lacuna and lacunae?

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.

Lacunae


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Lacuna

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.

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