lacuna
/ləˈkjuːnə/
noun
- A gap or missing part, especially in a text, argument, or record.
- The editor worked to fill the lacuna in the story by adding a missing chapter.
- The historian found a lacuna in the ancient manuscript where several pages had been torn out.
- There is a noticeable lacuna in the report regarding the company's financial losses.
- A small cavity or space in the body, such as in bone or cartilage tissue.
- The biology textbook explained how nutrients pass through the lacunae in cartilage.
- Under the microscope, the bone cells were visible inside tiny lacunae.
- Each lacuna in the bone matrix houses an osteocyte.