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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Me·nis·cus n.; pl. L. Menisci E. Meniscuses
 1. A crescent.
 2. Opt. A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.
 3. Anat. An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds.
 Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.
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