See Also: luculent(dictionary)
Ethmoid(health)
Ethmoid(medicine)
ethmoid(dictionary)
Bone, ethmoid(health)
ethmoid infundibulum(medicine)
ethmoid bone(medicine)
ethmoid angle(medicine)
ethmoid air cells(medicine)
supra-ethmoid(medicine)

Ethmoid sinus (health) and luculent (iou)


Ethmoid sinus (health)


A collection of air cells within the ethmoid bone, a spongy bone which makes up the front of the floor of the skull and the roof of the nose. From the Greek ethmos, sieve + eidos, resemblance = like a sieve.





luculent (iou)



luculent adjective. LME.
[Latin luculentus, from luc-, lux light: see -ENT.]
Full of light; bright, clear, shining. Now rare. LME.
Of evidence, an argument: clear, convincing. Of an explanation: lucid. Formerly also, (of oratory, an orator, etc.) brilliant, admirable. M16.
luculently adverb E17.