crescentic

The circumstances were misaligned enough to make the beard’s intent mysterious—it was presented in the style of an achievement beard, but what was the achievement?—and the beard was misaligned enough to make Dorsey’s head look frighteningly crescentic.

In the Birds the auricular and ventricular septa are complete; the right ventricle is thin-walled and crescentic in section, as in Man, and the musculi papillares are developed.

In transverse section it is crescentic, since the septal wall bulges into its cavity.

In measles it is crescentic in shape, and is more elevated than in typhus.

It is quite evident that the eruptive spots of r�theln have presented different physical features in different epidemics; but, as a general thing, it may be said that they are smaller than those in measles, of a paler color, and, according to Thomas, not so angular, less indented, and not so often provided with processes, therefore less apt to assume the crescentic arrangement so often seen in measles.37 The incubation period is longer in r�theln than in measles.