(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
(a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
(a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
(a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
(n.) A lunar distance.
(n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those figures are based on calculations recently made using images from Nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter cameras that reveal Lunokhod 2's tracks, the US space agency said.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) The lunar new year, also known as spring festival, is the most important holiday in China, sparking the world’s largest migration of people as millions of workers return home .
(4) The total content of collagen in skeletal muscle at 6 lunar month was 1.7% of wet weight of the tissue.
(5) The lunar particles found in the sample include: (i) spherules, rotational ellipsoids, dumbbells, tear-drops, rings, and crescents which have (ii) diameters of 0.1 to 500 microns; (iii) budlike features on the particles; and (iv) chemical inhomogeneity (electron probe).
(6) The example of the untreated peri-lunar luxation and subsequent lunar necrosis illustrates the legally effective problematic nature of two causes.
(7) São Paulo restaurants creating a new Brazilian cuisine Read more Music matches each course on a playful menu that varies not just with the seasons, but with lunar cycles and Vidolin’s spiritual state, so we’re told.
(8) Lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) were measured with a Novo radioisotope based dual photon densitometer and with a Lunar X-ray densitometer in 94 subjects attending a Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic.
(9) This phantom was scanned using the whole-body mode by the Lunar DPX to determine bone mineral content (BMC), area, bone mineral density (BMD), and body composition in terms of fat and fat-free tissue.
(10) We report here a quantitative comparison of the DEXA and DPA technologies using a Hologic DEXA (Hologic QDR model 1000, Waltham, MA) scanner and a Lunar DPA (Lunar Radiation DP3, gandolineum-153 source) scanner at both the proximal femur and lumbar spine sites using bone density measurements from a population-based sample of older white men and women who had complete DEXA and DPA measurements of the hip (n = 217) or the spine (n = 176).
(11) The statistical analysis revealed significant dependence of the obtained data on local geometrical properties of 12-hour lunar tidal waves.
(12) We would also be against any obstruction of solar or lunar sight lines from Stonehenge to surrounding monuments.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Two complete magna representing two species have a single proximal facet for articulation with the lunar, and they lack a facet for the scaphoid.
(16) No relationship between lunar cycles and total accidents or severity of accident was found.
(17) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(18) We’ve gathered a few creative intergalactic lesson plans below – including edible meteorites and studying real lunar rocks.
(19) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(20) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
Lunate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lunated
Example Sentences:
(1) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
(2) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
(3) In capitate interpositional arthroplasty (Graner II) the necrotic lunate bone is removed and the congruity of the proximal carpal row is restored by interposition of the proximal half of the capitate.
(4) Assessment of Holloway's chimpanzee data supports my claim that the dimple on the Taung endocast is within the chimpanzee range for the medial end of the lunate sulcus.
(5) The authors have underlined in a study made on 8 observations that the lunate dislocation is scar.
(6) Since 1986, 7 necrosed lunate bones (Kienbock disease) in 7 patients were replaced by the nearby pisiform bone with a pedicle of its own nutrient vessels and tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris.
(7) We observed and other persons, too, (visitors, new patients...) the strange and particular physic aspect of lunatic people who are ill long since.
(8) In the past thirty-one years (1956-1986), seventeen patients were found to have fresh lunate fractures.
(9) Speaking in detail about the Trident review for the first time since he was sacked as minister, Harvey said: "If you can just break yourself out of that frankly almost lunatic mindset for a second, all sorts of alternatives start to look possible, indeed credible."
(10) Nor were terrorists in the same category as a "lunatic assassins".
(11) In addition, the bone scan showed focal increased uptake in the right scaphoid bone and lunate bone as well, suggesting fractures.
(12) Capitate-hamate-lunate-triquetral fusions reduced compressive strains by 28.5% and tensile strains by 26.3%.
(13) In type 2 the triquetrohamate joint is separated from the capitolunate joint by a concave transition facet on the hamate and lunate.
(14) Anatomic reduction of the scaphoid, as well as the midcarpal joint, and restoration of the articular surface of the lunate, are most important in determining prognosis.
(15) Pathologic findings were observed in 11 wrists, including four perforations of the triangular fibrocartilage complex, two cases of chondromalacia of the lunate, one tear in each of the scapholunate and lunotriquetral ligaments, three occult palmar ganglia, and one recurrent dorsal ganglion.
(16) The wrist motion remaining after simulated arthrodeses was as follows: capitate-hamate: flexion (Flx) 98%, extension (Ext) 92%, ulnar deviation (UD) 96%, radial deviation (RD) 90%; scaphoid-lunate: Flx 97%, Ext 91%, UD 90%, RD 91%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid: Flx 86%, Ext 88%, UD 67%, RD 69%; scaphoid-lunate-triquetrum: Flx 91%, Ext 82%, UD 86%, RD 70%; capitate-lunate: Flx 70%, Ext 59%, UD 89%, RD 79%; capitate-hamate-triquetrum: Flx 88%, Ext 79%, UD 88%, RD 81%; hamate-triquetrum: Flx 90%, Ext 85%, UD 89%, RD 94%; scaphoid-trapezium-trapezoid-capitate: Flx 85%, Ext 77%, UD 64%, RD 57%.
(17) The midcarpal joint is stabilized by active, longitudinal compressive forces which produce balancing lateral volar flexion and medial dorsiflexion moments on the lunate.
(18) Bilateral palmar instability of the wrist with subluxation between capitate and lunate bone.
(19) However, Holloway neglected to measure the occipital pole-lunate sulcus (OP-LS) arc directly on the Taung endocast as he did on chimpanzee brain casts (a crucial part of his methodology); instead, he determined the relative position of Taung's lunate sulcus on the basis of a calculation that confounds direct measurements and measurements from photographs.
(20) An old dorsal lunate dislocation with associated multiple extensor tendon ruptures is described.