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lunar

1. of or relating to the moon
2. occurring on, used on, or designed to land on the surface of the moon
3. relating to, caused by, or measured by the position or orbital motion of the moon
4. of or containing silver
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Hampela H, Cattrijsse A, Vincx M (2003) Tidal, diel and semilunar changes in the faunal assemblage of an intertidal salt marsh creek.
The connecting outflow tracts twist into position and form the semilunar valves.
Although there were no significant autocorrelations at either near-lunar ([approximately]30 d) or near-semilunar ([approximately]15 d) frequencies (Table 1), the average lunar pattern of spawning (average per lunar day over three lunar cycles) was semilunar (bimodal; [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 4 OMITTED]): average output per female per day Rayleigh Z = 7.0, P [less than] 0.001, average percentage of females spawning per day (not shown) Rayleigh Z = 14.4, P [less than] 0.001), with peaks of activity (mean angles of the circular distributions) 2.5 d prior to the new and full moons [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 4A OMITTED].
The shapes of the menisci were determined as crescentic (semilunar), sickle shaped, C shaped, U shaped, V shaped, incomplete discoid or complete discoid as follows (Figure 2) (3,8,9).
Besides these, Chaudhari et al [9] & Sangeeta et al [13] observed heart-shaped spleens in 6.45% & 3.7% respectively, while Sangeeta et al [13] observed semilunar spleens in 3.7%.
Zeredo, "Migrated maxillary implant removed via semilunar hiatus by transnasal endoscope," Implant Dentistry, vol.
The external nares are slit like like opening in kenguri sheep whereas, comma shaped in ox (Hare, 1975b), buffalo (Dhingra and Kumar, 1978) and dog (Hare, 1975d), semilunar in horse (Hare, 1975a) and circular in pig (Hare, 1975c).
- Semilunar flap###- Connective tissue graft + double
The semilunar line extends from the cartilage of the ninth rib to the pubic spine and is an area of congenital weakness.
The developing OFT is still positioned completely above the RV and contains cushion tissue that will form the semilunar valves of the Ao and PT.
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