a. [f. LACUNA + -AL.] Of or pertaining to a lacuna, resembling a lacuna.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph., iv. (1848), 58. The intermediate lateral pores or lacunal spaces.

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1859.  J. Tomes, Dental Surg., 86. A bone lacuna, situated within a semi-circular indentation in the dentine, gives the appearance of a lacunal cell.

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1874.  Van Buren, Dis. Genit. Org., 77. Another form of lacunal inflammation is where the lacuna magna in the roof of the urethra continues inflamed.

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