Lacuna

Lacuna may refer to:

• Lacuna (manuscripts), a missing section of text
• Lacuna (music), an extended silence in a piece of music
• Lacuna (linguistics), a lexical gap in a language
• Lacuna (law), the lack of a law or legal source addressing a situation
• Lacuna (histology), a small space containing an osteocyte in bone or chondrocyte in cartilage
• Lacuna (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics superhero
• The Lacuna, a 2009 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Lacuna, Inc., a fictional company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lacuna, a character in Xanth by Piers Anthony

See also

• Lacuna model, a tool for unlocking culture differences or missing "gaps" in text
• Lacunar amnesia, in psychology, amnesia about a specific event
• Lacunar stroke, an occlusion of a small cerebral artery to deep cortical areas
• Petrovsky lacuna, a region where the fundamental solution of a differential equation vanishes
• Lacuna Coil, an Italian hard rock/metal band