cuboidal
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As a single layer of flat epithelia are more tightly knit than cuboidal cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Sesamoid bones are small, flat, and irregularly shaped, whereas short bones are cuboidal in shape.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The thyroid gland is made up of many spherical thyroid follicles, which are lined with a simple cuboidal epithelium.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Stratified cuboidal epithelium and stratified columnar epithelium can also be found in certain glands and ducts, but are uncommon in the human body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Although it is the general peculiarity of granite to assume no definite shapes, it is nevertheless occasionally subdivided by fissures, so as to assume a cuboidal, and even a columnar, structure.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
