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    Meniscus
    A crescent shaped cartilage in the wrist and knee joints.
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    Meniscus
    Meniscus: The word 'meniscus' comes from the Greek and refers to a crescent-shaped structure. Today a meniscus is something that is shaped like a crescent moon or a croissant pastry. A meniscus can be an anatomic feature. For example, the medial meniscus of the knee is a crescent-shaped cartilage pa...
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    meniscus
    me·nis'cus noun ; plural Latin menisci (-sī), English Meniscuses . [ New Latin , from Greek mhni`skos , dim. of mh`nh the moon.] 1. A crescent. 2. (Opt.) A lens convex on one s...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/47
    
    
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    meniscus
    Origin: NL, from Gr, dim. Of mhnh the moon. ... 1. A crescent. ... 2. <optics> A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. ... 3. <anatomy, ornithology> An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; especially, one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the ver...
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    meniscus
    semilunar cartilage noun (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=meniscus
    
    
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    meniscus
    noun (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube
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    meniscus
    (mә-nis´kәs) the concave or convex surface of a column of liquid, as in a medication cup in anatomy, a crescent-shaped structure. It is often used alone to designate one of the crescent-shaped disks of fibrocartilage in the knee joint. adj., menis´cal., adj.
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    Meniscus
    • (n.) A crescent. • (n.) An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. • (n.) A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/meniscus/
    
    
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    meniscus
    (from the article `joint`) ...to the joint capsule (the investing ligament) and that stretch across the joint cavity between a pair of conarticular surfaces. When complete they ... ...provided that the edges are not totally separated from each other. Internal derangements of the knee most often aris...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/71
    
    
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    meniscus
    (from the article `fluid mechanics`) ...a tube of narrow bore, often called a capillary tube, is dipped into a liquid. If the liquid `wets` the tube (with zero contact angle), the liquid ...
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    meniscus
    meniscus (s), menisci (pl) 1. A crescent-shaped body. 2. A concavo-convex lens. 3. The curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a container that is concave if the liquid wets the container walls and convex if it does not. 4. The free surface of a liquid that is near the walls of a vessel ...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3060/
    
    
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    Meniscus
    [anatomy] In anatomy, a meniscus (from Greek μηνίσκος meniskos, "crescent") is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous structure that, in contrast to articular disks, only partly divides a joint cavity. In humans it is present in the knee, acromioclavicular, sternoclavicular, and tempor...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meniscus_(anatomy)
    
    
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    Meniscus
    The meniscus (plural: menisci, from the Greek for "crescent") is the curve in the upper surface of a liquid close to the surface of the container or another object, caused by surface tension. It can be either convex or concave. A convex meniscus occurs when the molecules have a stronger attraction ...
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