spheroid

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Although tested in monkeys, it is worth noting that the cardiac spheroid production protocol used in this study was designed for clinical application in humans.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

But because the earth is an oblate spheroid, the sea level at the Equator is some 14 miles farther from the center of the earth than the sea level at the North Pole.

From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2023

The live feed appears on a spheroid TV that looks like an astronaut’s helmet and directly faces the Buddha.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

Moments later a middle-aged man declared, "Earth is flat, not spheroid!"

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2018

Never mind that James Hutton had shown long before that any such static arrangement would eventually result in a featureless spheroid as erosion leveled the bumps and filled in the divots.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson