Lacuna

Lacuna (plural lacunas or lacunae) may refer to:

==Related to the meaning "gap"== Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work Great Lacuna, a lacuna of eight leaves in the Codex Regius where there was heroic Old Norse poetry Lacuna (music), an intentional, extended passage in a musical work during which no notes are played Scientific lacuna, 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, the largest of several recesses in the urethra