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Webster 1913 Edition

(kr?′shal)

Adj.

[F.

crucial

, fr. L.

crux

crucis

, cross, torture. See

Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting;

as,

crucial

ligaments; a

crucial

incision

Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive;

as, a

crucial

test

Adj.

[L., a cross.] In surgery, transverse; passing across; intersecting; in form of a cross; as crucial incision.