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

Texas, West Texas and Texas Tech surely reserve their foremost excitement for when the ball is a prolate spheroid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019

The eye cornea is approximated as a prolate spheroid with an axis that is the eye, where a = 8.7 mm and c = 9.6 mm.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

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