| lachrymatory | Origin: Cf. F. Lacrymatoire. A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Synonym: lachrymal or lacrymal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| LACI | <abbreviation> Lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| lack | 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. "She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood." (Chaucer) "Let his lack of years be no impediment." (Shak) Origin: OE. Lak; cf. D. Lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. Lahan, AS. Lean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lackey | Origin: F. Laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. Lacayo; of uncertain origin; perh. Of German origin, and akin to E.lick. An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. "Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. <zoology> " (Shak) Lackey caterpillar, the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| laconian | Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. An inhabitant of Laconia; especially, a Spartan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| laconical | 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. "I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long." (Pope) "His sense was strong and his style laconic." (Welwood) 2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. "His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well." (Bp. Hall) Synonym: Short, brief, concise, succinct, sententious, pointed, pithy. Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness. Origin: L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr, fr. A Laconian, Lacedaemonian, or Spartan: cf. F. Laconique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |