spheric

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The patient died one month after of another cause, and at the postmortem examination the aorta was shown to have been opened; the wound in its walls was covered with a spheric, indurated coagulum.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Led by his voice, its spheric pathway taking, While glorious clouds their wings around it furl'd.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

The ripe human ovum or germ cell is a spheric cell, about 0.2 mm. in diameter, consisting of granular protoplasm, in which lies a nucleus which contains the germinal spot.

From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)

I, for my part, felt nothing but regret that the spheric smoothness of his universe should be disfigured by the extrusion even of such inconsiderable particles as ourselves.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

And the world was filled with spheric fire From the palpitant chords of many a lyre, As out of the East the Moonmen came Smiting their harps of silver and flame.

From Shapes and Shadows by Cawein, Madison J.