| LACI | <abbreviation> Lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lacing | 1. The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces. 2. <machinery> A lace; specifically, a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts. 3. A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc. 4. <engineering> A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lacinia | Origin: L, the lappet or flap of a garment. 1. <botany> One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. 2. <zoology> The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| laciniae tubae | Synonym: fimbriae of uterine tube. Origin: L. Lacinia, fringe (05 Mar 2000) |
| laciniate | Slashed into narrow, pointed lobes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| laciniate ligament | A wide band passing from the medial malleolus to the medial and upper border of the calcaneus and to the plantar surface as far as the navicular bone; it holds in place the tendons of the tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, and flexor hallucis longus. Synonym: retinaculum musculorum flexorum, laciniate ligament, ligamentum laciniatum, retinaculum of flexor muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laciniated | 1. Fringed; having a fringed border. 2. <botany> Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed. See: Lacinia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| laciniolate | <botany> Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae. See: Lacinia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lacinula | Origin: NL. <botany> A diminutive lacinia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lacis cell | One of the cell's of the juxtaglomerular apparatus found at the vascular pole of the renal corpuscle. Origin: Fr. Lacis, meshwork (05 Mar 2000) |