lacunar
Americannoun
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lacunars,
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lacunaria
plural
adjective
noun
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Also called: lequear. a ceiling, soffit, or vault having coffers
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another name for coffer
adjective
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Patients with enlarged arteries were more than four times more likely to have experienced a lacunar stroke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
To investigate, researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the UK Dementia Research Institute, and international collaborators examined 229 people who had experienced either a lacunar stroke or a mild non-lacunar stroke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
In contrast, artery widening showed a strong connection to lacunar stroke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The analysis showed that narrowing of large arteries was not associated with lacunar stroke or with small vessel disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
I would like to emphasize one of the newer features of the pathologic anatomy of glaucoma, one which has received too little attention in this country: the lacunar or cavernous atrophy of the optic nerve.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
Part of the ceiling, lacunaria, of the Theseion with six squares for soffits cut through the marble.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
The sculptures, tiles, lacunaria, and capitals of the interior architecture were all of marble, which was probably obtained in the neighbourhood.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
In these ways all defects will be corrected, whether in metopes or intercolumniations or lacunaria, as all the arrangements have been made with uniformity.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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