cuboidal
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Sesamoid bones are small, flat, and irregularly shaped, whereas short bones are cuboidal in shape.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
As diffusion of nutrients and gas is easier across a single layer of flat epithelial cells than cuboidal cells.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Breast alveoli are balloon-like structures lined with milk-secreting cuboidal cells, or lactocytes, that are surrounded by a net of contractile myoepithelial cells.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
This cluster of cuboidal epithelial cells monitors the fluid composition of fluid flowing through the DCT.
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 Lyell, Charles, Sir
