Translation for "lúnula" to english

Lúnula

• lunula
• lune

Translation examples

lunula

Me contó que esa media luna de color claro que hay en la base de la uña se llama lúnula, palabra esdrújula.
She told me that the pale crescent at the base of the fingernail is called the lunula, the loon-ya-la.

Jean-Pierre baja la cabeza, empujando con la uña del dedo pulgar derecho las pielecillas que ocultan la lúnula del izquierdo, Christian se contorsiona en el banco mirando en lontananza.
Jean-Pierre lowers his head, using his right thumbnail to push back the little bits of skin that cover the lunula of his left thumbnail, while Christian squirms on the bench, staring into space.

Se lo roía, trituraba con los incisivos el padrastro primero, luego la propia uña, la base de la uña, el arco pálido de luna menguante, la lúnula, y algo entrañaba la escena, algo que resultaba espantoso y atávico, Chin nonato, acurrucado en una bolsa membranosa, un temible humanoide con cabeza de geko, chupándose las manos llenas de dedos romos, sin alcanzar del todo su desarrollo fetal.
He was gnawing, grinding his teeth on the hangnail, then the nail itself, the base of the nail, the pale arc of quarter moon, the lunula, and there was something awful and atavistic in the scene, Chin unborn, curled in a membranous sac, a scary little geek-headed humanoid, sucking his scalloped hands.