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fusiform

[fyoo-zuh-fawrm] / ˈfju zəˌfɔrm /


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Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

She had a broad bulge that’s called a fusiform aneurysm, and a coil wouldn’t fix the rupture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022

Results showed higher activity in brain regions dedicated to faces, bodies and scenes, compared with the other categories surveyed in the fusiform face area, the extrastriate body area and the parahippocampal place area, respectively.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2021

The link between cell death in the fusiform gyrus and the symptom is relatively easy to understand.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Shell generally longitudinally plaited, equally fusiform; outer lip smooth, slightly waved; top of the inner lip much thickened within; throat striated.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson


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