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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

The fusiform gyrus contains a site, where graphemes are perceived, abutting the color processing area V4.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2015

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

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

At first all are globose; as they mature, the majority are ovoid or elliptic; some are fusiform, with regularly attenuated extremities.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke




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