crescentic

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The forefinger must now be cautiously insinuated into the neck of the sac, the nail being directed to the bowel, the pulp to the crescentic margin of Gimbernat's ligament, and any constriction very cautiously divided.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Their surfaces often show minute crescentic or rounded cracks which are the edges of small conchoidal fractures produced by the impact of one pebble on another during storms or floods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

The blow-hole is single, crescentic and median, as in the Delphinidae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

This fold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eyelids, and forms, as it were, a third palpebra of a crescentic shape. 

From Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Morley, Henry

The shape was semilunar, crescentic or approximately that of the sector of a circle.

From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.