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Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:


Related to the meaning "gap"

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Lacuna (manuscripts) A lacuna ( lacunae or lacunas) is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work. A manuscript, text, or section suffering from gaps is said to be "lacunose" or "lacunulose". Weathering, decay, and other damage to ol ...
, a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work **
Great Lacuna The Great Lacuna is a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the ''Codex Regius''. The gap would have contained the last part of ''Sigrdrífumál'' and most of ''Sigurðarkviða''. What remains of the last poem consist ...
, a lacuna of eight leaves in the ''Codex Regius'' where there was heroic Old Norse poetry *
Lacuna (music) In music, a lacuna is an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played. A lacuna acts as "negative music" to induce a state of serenity (or tension) in the listener through its contrast to "normal" music consis ...
, an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played *
Scientific lacuna Scientific lacuna describes an area of science that has not been studied but has the potential to be studied scientifically. Often, this may be the case because it falls between different areas of sciences, such that it doesn't fall into a single s ...
, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied * Lacuna or
accidental gap In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being t ...
, in linguistics, a word that does not exist but which would be permitted by the rules of a language * Lacuna, in law, largely overlapping a ''
non liquet In law, a ''non liquet'' (commonly known as " lacuna in the law") is any situation for which there is no applicable law. ''Non liquet'' translates into English from the Latin as "it is not clear". According to Cicero, the term was applied during ...
'' ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)


In medicine

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Lacuna (histology) In histology, a lacuna is a small space, containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage. Bone The lacuna are situated between the lamella of osteon, lamellae, and consist of a number of oblong spaces. In an ordinary microscopic sect ...
, a small space containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage *
Muscular lacuna The muscular lacuna (Latin: ''lacuna musculorum'') is the lateral compartment of the thigh beneath the inguinal ligament. It is separated from the medial vascular lacuna by the iliopectineal arch. It is occupied/traversed by the iliopsoas muscle, ...
, a lateral compartment of the thigh *
Vascular lacuna The vascular lacuna (Latin: ''lacuna vasorum (retroinguinalis)'') is the medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament. It is separated from the lateral muscular lacuna by the iliopectineal arch.Ross, L.M., Lamperti, E.D. (2006). Thieme: Atl ...
, a medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament * Lacuna magna, the largest of several recesses in the urethra


Other uses

* Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character * ''Lacuna'' (film), a 2012 Chinese romantic comedy film * ''Lacuna'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails in the family Littorinidae * '' Helcogramma lacuna'' (''H. lacuna''), a species of fish in the genus ''Helcogramma'' * ''
Mallomonas lacuna ''Mallomonas lacuna'' is a species of heterokont algae. It is a tiny free-living cell, about the width of a human hair. It has ornate scales and bristles, as well as long spines. It is a relatively common part of lake or pond plankton Plankt ...
'' (''M. lacuna''), a species of heterokont algae *
Lacuna Island Lacuna Island is a small island lying east of Tula Point, the northern end of Renaud Island, in the Pitt Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was so named by the UK Antarctic ...
, Antarctica *
Jessie Lacuna Jessie Khing de Guzman Lacuna ( ; born December 23, 1993) is a Filipino former competitive swimmer who competed in the freestyle and butterfly events. He had, overall, won 26 Gold medals in Philippine Olympic Games and 7 in SEA Age Group Swimm ...
(born 1993), a Filipino swimmer * ''
The Lacuna ''The Lacuna'' is a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It is Kingsolver's sixth novel, and won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Library of Virginia, Library of Virginia Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin ...
'', a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver * Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the 2004 film ''
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' is a 2004 American surrealist science fiction romantic drama film directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman from a story by Gondry, Kaufman, and Pierre Bismuth. Starring Jim Carrey a ...
'' * Lacuna, the name of several
lakes of Titan Lakes of liquid ethane and methane exist on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This was confirmed by the ''Cassini–Huygens'' space probe, as had been suspected since the 1980s. The large bodies of liquid are known as (seas) and the ...
, the moon of Saturn


See also

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Lacuna model The lacuna model is a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text (in the further meaning). The lacuna model was established as a theory by Jurij Sorokin and Irina Markovina (Russia), further developed by Astrid Ertelt-Vieth a ...
, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text *
Lacunar amnesia Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about a specific event. This specific form of amnesia is caused by brain damage in the limbic system which is responsible for our memories and emotions. When the damage occurs it leaves a lacuna, or a gap, in ...
, loss of memory about one specific event *
Lacunar stroke Lacunar stroke or lacunar cerebral infarct (LACI) is the most common type of ischemic stroke, resulting from the Vascular occlusion, occlusion of small penetrating artery, arteries that provide blood to the brain's deep structures. Patients who pr ...
, in medicine, the most common type of stroke *
Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded ten studio albums, two extended plays, two l ...
, an Italian hard rock/metal band *
Lacunary function In analysis, a lacunary function, also known as a lacunary series, is an analytic function that cannot be analytically continued anywhere outside the radius of convergence within which it is defined by a power series. The word ''lacunary'' is deri ...
, an analytic function in mathematics *
Lacunarity Lacunarity, from the Latin lacuna, meaning "gap" or "lake", is a specialized term in geometry referring to a measure of how patterns, especially fractals, fill space, where patterns having more or larger gaps generally have higher lacunarity. ...
, a mathematical measure of the extent that a pattern contains gaps *
Lacunary polynomial In mathematics, a sparse polynomial (also lacunary polynomial or fewnomial) is a polynomial that has far fewer terms than its degree and number of variables would suggest. For example, x^ + 3x^3 + 1 is a sparse polynomial, as it is a trinomial with ...
, or sparse polynomial * Petrovsky lacuna, in mathematics *
Laguna (disambiguation) Laguna (Italian and Spanish word for lagoon), is a Spanish, Italian, and Polish surname. It may also refer to: People * Andrés Laguna (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist, and botanist * Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva (1822â ...
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