fusiform
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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
"Small-headed Child who Power-Lifts with #sharpie_eyes & uncircumcised fusiform fingers struggles to defend #Renoir's painting abilities on social media."
From The Verge ● Oct. 12, 2015
When a parallel muscle has a central, large belly that is spindle-shaped, meaning it tapers as it extends to its origin and insertion, it sometimes is called fusiform.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Their shape, almost always spherical in the young plant, becomes ovate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, reniform, smooth, stellate, sometimes tuberculate, or remains globose.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
