Crescent

{kres’ ’-enf) \_crescere, to grow]. I. Sickle-shaped, or shaped like the new moon. 2. A name given to one form of the malarial hematozoon. C. of Gianuzzi, groups of deeply staining cells in the acinus of a gland, pushed to one side by the secreting cells, and probably representing exhausted cells. C. Myopic. See Myopia.. 213