crenated

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The blood was fluid, of the color and appearance of port-wine lees; under the microscope the corpuscles were shrivelled and crenated, and there was a space apparent between them as they were arranged in rouleaux.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

They are however nothing but contraction forms of the poikilocytes, as the crenated are of the normal corpuscles.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

The paddi-field leech of Ceylon, used for surgical purposes, has the dorsal surface of blackish olive, with several longitudinal striæ, more or less defined; the crenated margin yellow.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

They pretend that it has an area as large as Algiers, surrounded with a mud wall, twelve or fifteen feet high, and crenated.

From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by Richardson, James

Valves 8, including a small, often rudimentary rostrum and a pair of small latera: lines of growth finely crenated.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles