Noun: lacune
| Singular | lacune |
| Plural | lacunes |
Sample Sentences
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We compared the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban […] with aspirin […] for the prevention of recurrent stroke in patients with recent ischemic stroke that was presumed to be from cerebral embolism but without arterial stenosis, lacune, or an identified cardioembolic source. [2018, The New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:]
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Let us climb over the ice and snow, leap across the lacune, and wipe away the stiria [1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like lacune
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French lacune. Doublet of lacuna and lagoon. See: French Nouns '
lacune'.