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Definition of Biconcave
1. Adjective. Concave on both sides.
Definition of Biconcave
1. a. Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.
Definition of Biconcave
1. Adjective. Having both sides concave. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Biconcave
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Biconcave
1. Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biconcave
Literary usage of Biconcave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy, ( (1879)
"But the most wonderful instance of reversion that I can mention is the case of
Ichthyornis, a fossil bird which has the fish-like character of biconcave ..."
2. A Laboratory Course in Experimental Physics by William James Loudon, John Cunningham McLennan (1895)
"FOCAL LENGTH OF A biconcave LENS. METHOD I. Theory. — In Fig. 40 AC is a biconcave
lens whose focus is at ..."
3. The American Amateur Photographer (1891)
"biconcave—Lat. bis, and concavo, hollow—hollow on both sides. ... Unlike double
or biconvex lenses, biconcave have only virtual foci, whatever the distance ..."
4. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"... and all his means in comparatively un- color to the fluid, and are biconcave
disc*, Paris In 1741. He spent most of his life the fluid of the blood. ..."
5. The Physiology and pathology of the blood: Comprising the Origins, Mode of by Richard Norris (1882)
"The power of taking on these biconcave forms really rests upon a physical law
which is competent to act under favourable conditions, with much greater ..."
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