Lacunae

Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: lacuna.
  • Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work
    • Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves in the Codex Regius where there was heroic Old Norse poetry
  • Lacuna (music), an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played
  • Scientific lacuna, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied
  • Lacuna or accidental gap, 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 ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)

In medicine
  • Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage
  • Muscular lacuna, a lateral compartment of the thigh
  • Vascular lacuna, 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 (M. lacuna), a species of heterokont algae
  • Lacuna Island, Antarctica
  • Jessie Lacuna (born 1993), a Filipino swimmer
  • The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Lacuna, the name of several lakes of Titan, the moon of Saturn
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