Category: L
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Large intestine
The part of the intestine that goes from the cecum to the rectum. The large intestine absorbs water from stool and changes it from a liquid to a solid form. The large intestine is 5 feet long and includes the appendix, cecum, colon, and rectum. Also called colon. The section of the digestive system from…
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Labile
Gliding; moving from point to point over the surface; unstable; fluctuating. Chemically unstable. Rapidly shifting (as applied to emotions); unstable. Easily moved or changed, as in shifting from one emotion to another, or becoming quickly aroused. Unstable. In psychiatry and psychology, moods or behaviors that are changeable and unstable are called labile. Someone who is…
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Palmatipartite
Lobed and hand-shaped, the lobes occupying more than half of the leaf.
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Lyrate
Lyre-shaped, pinnately lobed proximally but with a large rounded terminal lobe. Pinnately lobed with the terminal segment round and large, and the lower lobes smaller. With a series of pinnate lobes and a larger terminal lobe.
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Lustrous
Shining.
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Lunulate
Diminutive of lunate [not recommended].
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Luniform
(Of a 3-dimensional shape) resembling a crescent moon [unusual term].
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Lunate
Half-moon-shaped. One of the eight small carpal bones in the wrist. A crescent-shaped bone located in the proximal row of the carpus.
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Lumping
(In taxonomy) taking a broad view and making many previously described taxa into synonyms.
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Lumen (plural lumina)
(Of spore wall) the space bounded by reticulations; (Of cells) the space within the cell walls.