crescent

(kres'ent) [L. crejcere, to increase.] 1. Any figure of the shape of the moon in its first quarter, i. The figure made by the gray columns or comua on cro section of the spinal cord. 3. The primitive sexual form of the malignant malarial parasite, developing later into the gametocyte, or flagellated body, artic'ular c, meniscus articular is [BNA]. Gianuz'zi's c, see Gianuzzi. myop'ic c, a white or grayish white crescentic patch in the fundus of the eye to the outer side of the optic disc, due to atrophy of the chorioid, in posterior staphyloma.