Dictionary entry overview: What does posthumously mean? â¢ POSTHUMOUSLY (adverb) The adverb POSTHUMOUSLY has 1 sense: 1. after death Familiarity information: POSTHUMOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
crescent-any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters. curve, curved shape-the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes.. a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends. 2. something, as a cookie, having this shape. 3. the figure of the moon in its first or last quarter, resembling such a shape. 4. shaped like a crescent.
crescent, congenital scleral. A white semilunar patch of sclera seen adjacent to the optic disc due to the fact that the choroid and retinal pigment epithelium do not extend to the optic disc. This condition is present at birth, unlike myopic crescent, and is often associated with defective vision and tilted disc or situs inversus of the disc. Syn.