laquear

plural laquears

1. architectureA lacunar.

   these were the panels proper of the laquear or fretted ceiling.

   1903, Suetonius, Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De Vita Caesarum, Libri III-VI, page 298

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   Gradus in quo lector stat, Amp. I, V. 381, it is clear that the ambo, which is meant by it, was to a certain extent an imitation of the laquear in Solomon's temple .

   1919, Leo Wiener, Contributions Towards a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, page 351

   The sunk or hollow compartments, which form the laquear of this depressed vault, differ considerably in shape and arrangement from those which were adopted when it was finally rejected.

   2022, John Addington Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

2. The upper portion of the vagina.

   Rent of cervix and roof of the vagina (laquear) on the right side.

   1890, August Eduard Martin, Ernest Watson Cushing, Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Women, page 348

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   The instrument thus bent is gently pushed upwards, so tahat its points take a position to the right and left side of the uterine neck, as high up as possible in the laquear vaginæ.

   1860, E. Noeggerath, “Remarks on the Employment of Uterine Pessaries, With the Description of a New Instrument.”, in The Retrospect of Medicine, volume 41, page 284

   The distance from the posterior laquear to the bottom of Douglas's cul-de-sac measures 1.5, 2.6 to 3.7 centimetres; in a woman in the seventh month of pregnancy, even 5.8 centimetres.

   1874, “Ætiology of Uterine Flexions”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, page 489

   The great ganglionic apparatus of the uterus lies imbedded in the parts surrounding the lateral portion of the Laquear Vaginæ but above the level of the Laquear.

   1894, Casey A. Wood, T. A. Woodruff, “The Uterus and the Eye, an Ophthalmic Review for the General Practitioner”, in The North American Practitioner, volume 6, page 16