from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The semilunar bone of the wrist; the second bone of the proximal row of carpals, between the scaphoid and the cuneiform: so called from its concavo-convex shape in the human wrist. More fully called os semilunare. Also lunare and lungtum. See scapholunare, and cuts under Artiodactyla, hand, perissodactyla, pisiform, and scapholunar.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
The Semilunar Ganglion (ganglion semilunare [Gasseri]; Gasserian ganglion) occupies a cavity (cavum Meckelii) in the dura mater covering the trigeminal impression near the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone.