crescentic

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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

It consists of small, slightly elevated, round red spots which now and then coalesce into small patches, but never have the somewhat crescentic arrangement observed in the rash of measles.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles

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 semilunar menisci are two crescentic plates of white fibro-cartilage, which lie upon the upper end of the tibia, and serve to deepen the articular surface for the condyles of the femur.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

In measles the lesions are larger, more vivid, more angular and indented, more frequently provided with processes, and therefore more apt to assume the crescentic arrangement, than in r�theln.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various