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On the atrial septum may be seen a lunated impression, bounded below by a crescentic ridge, the concavity of which is turned upward.

V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart 1918

Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the Mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

A large lunated incision below the lower margin of the bone, with its ends extending upwards to within half an inch of the lips, will give free access, and yet avoid both hæmorrhage and deformity, as the labial artery and vein are not cut, and there is no trouble in readjusting the lips.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

Mr. Syme's original operation was briefly as follows: -- With an ordinary amputating-knife make a lunated incision (Plate I.fig. 19) from one condyle to the other, across the front of the joint, on a level with the middle of the patella, divide the tissues down to the bones, and then draw the flap upwards, then cut the quadriceps extensor immediately above the patella.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

The H. thyridion is distinguished from the H. fenestrata by its larger size, and a third yellowish white interrupted band close to the base of the first pair of wings; the fenestrated spot is narrower, more lunated, and is much smaller in proportion than in the corresponding part in Dr. Boisduval's species.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

It seemed to possess a double quantity of fins, -- lunated along their outer margins, and set thickly over its body, so as to give it a bristling aspect.

The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

William perceived a large crescent shaped fin rising several inches above the surface of the water, -- a tail lunated like that of the shark, -- a hungry eye, and prowling attitude: the very characteristics of the dreaded tyrant of the deep.

The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

In the evening I killed a nsamma doe, an animal very much like the Kobus Ellipsiprymnus, but without the lunated mark over the rump; and at night, about 1 a.m., turned out to shoot an elephant, which we distinctly heard feasting on plantains; but rain was falling, and the night so dark, he was left till the morning.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

The compound flowers, are of a pale, greenish yellow, collected together in a small oblong head, upon a long slender peduncle, the legumes are large, lunated and slat, placed in a spiral or contorted manner, each containing several hard compressed seed, or little beans.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

Engages Lapage, assures us that he Saw them in the Black hills where the Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791