cuboidal

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Figure 24.8 Simple cuboidal epithelial cells line tubules in the mammalian kidney, where they are involved in filtering the blood.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Sesamoid bones are small, flat, and irregularly shaped, whereas short bones are cuboidal in shape.

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

In simple cuboidal epithelium, the nucleus of the box-like cells appears round and is generally located near the center of the cell.

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