fusiform
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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
Scientists believe that prosopagnosia is caused by a malfunctioning in a part of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus, which is part of both the occipital lobe and the temporal lobe.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2022
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
The fusiform gyrus contains a site, where graphemes are perceived, abutting the color processing area V4.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
The elaters are never fusiform, the apices always abrupt in their acumination, and the sculpture irregular and uneven.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
