Medical term:
demilune
crescent
[kres´ent]1. shaped like a new moon.
2. something with this shape. adj., adj crescen´tic.
Giannuzzi's c's crescent-shaped patches of serous cells surrounding the mucous tubercles in mixed glands.
sublingual crescent the crescent-shaped area on the floor of the mouth, bounded by the lingual wall of the mandible and the base of the tongue.
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dem·i·lune bod·y
a circular body of extreme transparency except for a crescentic punctate substance on one edge, which contains hemoglobin. The body is much larger than a red blood cell, but is thought possibly to be a degenerated red blood cell swollen by imbibition; it has been found in malaria and in convalescence from typhoid fever; the transparent portion is called the glass body.
Synonym(s): demilune
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dem·i·lune
(dem'ē-lūn)1. A small body with a form similar to that of a half-moon or a crescent.
2. Term frequently applied to the gametocyte of Plasmodium falciparum.
[Fr. half-moon]
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