Crescentic [adjective]

In estivo-autumnal malaria the gametes take distinctive ovoid and crescentic forms, and are not difficult to recognize.

In estivo-autumnal fever usually only the small "ring bodies" and the crescentic and ovoid gametes are seen in the blood.

Two pairs of plates for the King of France required 3000 crescentic and 3000 round gilt nails to fix the velvet.

They have numerous endothelial valves, formed of two crescentic segments allowing the lymph to pass toward the root of the neck.

Some of these are circular or horseshoe shaped, some crescentic, and others curved or even straight ridges.

The caudal fin is concave or crescentic, and the scales are larger than those of the gag.

The head shield carries a pair of large, crescentic, compound eyes, like those of the insect.

This fold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eyelids, and forms, as it were, a third palpebra of a crescentic shape.

A crescentic piece of skin is marked out on the lower lid by two incisions which have their concavity directed upwards.

The shape was semilunar, crescentic or approximately that of the sector of a circle.