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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

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

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

Fascicled fusiform roots of a Dahlia: a, a, buds on base of stem.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray


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