Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:

Related to the meaning "gap"

Lacuna (manuscripts) A lacuna ( lacunae or lacunas) is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work. A manuscript, text, or section suffering from gaps is said to be "lacunose" or "lacunulose". Weathering, decay, and other damage to o ...

, a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work ** Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the ''Codex Regius'' *

Lacuna (music) In music, a lacuna is an intentional, extended passage (music), passage in a musical composition, musical work during which no note (music), notes are played. A lacuna acts as "negative music" to induce a state of serenity (or consonance and disso ...

, an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played *

Scientific lacuna Scientific lacuna describes an area of science that has not been studied but has the potential to be studied scientifically. Often, this may be the case because it falls between different areas of sciences, such that it doesn't fall into a single s ...

, an area of science that has not been studied but has potential to be studied * Lacuna or accidental gap, in linguistics, a word that does not exist but which would be permitted by the rules of a language * Lacuna, in law, largely overlapping a '' non liquet'' ("it is not clear"), a gap (in the law)

In medicine

* Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone, or chondrocyte in cartilage * Muscular lacuna, a lateral compartment of the thigh * Vascular lacuna, a medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament *

Lacuna magna In male anatomy, the lacuna magna (also called Guérin's sinus) is the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the male urethra. Structure The lacuna magna is a large recess in the roof of the navicular fossa of the ...

, the largest of several recesses in the urethra

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Lacuna (comics) X-Statix are a team of mutant superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team was specifically designed to be media superstars. The team, created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred, first appears in ''X-Force' ...

, a fictional Marvel Comics character * ''Lacuna'' (film), a 2012 Chinese romantic comedy film * ''Lacuna'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails in the family Littorinidae * ''

Helcogramma lacuna ''Helcogramma lacuna'', the cavern triplefin, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus ''Helcogramma''. It was described by Jeffrey T. Williams and Jeffery C. Howe in 2003. This species has only been recorded in the Similan Islands in the ...

'' (''H. lacuna''), a species of fish in the genus ''Helcogramma'' * ''

Mallomonas lacuna ''Mallomonas lacuna'' is a species of heterokont algae. It is a tiny free-living cell, about the width of a human hair. It has ornate scales and bristles, as well as long spines. It is a relatively common part of lake or pond plankton Plank ...

'' (''M. lacuna''), a species of heterokont algae * Lacuna Island, Antarctica * Jessie Lacuna (born 1993), a Filipino swimmer * '' The Lacuna'', a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver * Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in the 2004 film ''

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (also simply known as ''Eternal Sunshine'') is a 2004 American romantic science fiction drama film written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. P ...

'' * Lacuna, the name of several lakes of Titan, the moon of Saturn

Related to the meaning "gap"

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