| laciniate | Slashed into narrow, pointed lobes. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| 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) |
| lacquer | A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often coloured with gamboge, saffron, or the like; used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, especially. The tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made. Origin: F. Lacre a sort of sealing wax, Pg. Lacte, fr. Laca lac. See Lac the resin Alternative forms: lacker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lacrimal | Pertaining to the tears. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lacrimal apparatus | The tear-forming and tear-conducting system which includes the lacrimal glands, eyelid margins, conjunctival sac, and the tear drainage system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lacrimal apparatus diseases | Diseases of the lacrimal apparatus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lacrimal artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, ophthalmic; distribution, lacrimal gland, lateral and superior rectus muscles, superior eyelid, forehead, and temporal fossa. Synonym: arteria lacrimalis. (05 Mar 2000) |