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Definition of Moniliform
1. a. Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.
Definition of Moniliform
1. Adjective. Having a form resembling a string of beads, where the component parts or segments are more or less uniform in size and are spherical or rounded in shape. ¹
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Definition of Moniliform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Moniliform
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Moniliform
Literary usage of Moniliform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... on different branches, the latter terminal, solitary or few and moniliform-
... cleft next to the petiole : fertile heads 2 to 7 in a moniliform spike, ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"... very minute, hairy: petals 2, rarely 3, ensiform, thick and fleshy, 6-8 inches
long: carpels 2-4, moniliform : flowers pendulous, yellow-orange. ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1906)
"This fact, together with the occasional appearance of moniliform hairs in alopecia
areata, would rather suggest that an intermittent interference with the ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"3 and 4; (d) moniliform or beaded; but it is evident that the recognition of such
physical differences as these Fig. 4.—1-ung showing extensive saccular ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"A granulated root consists of many small tubercular knobs, connected by fibres,
as seen in the common wood sorrel. Some writers call this variety moniliform ..."
6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1891)
"From this there led a moniliform induration which gave very clearly the impression
of a lymphangitis (specific inflammation of a lymphatic vessel) with the ..."
7. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1827)
"... bodies composed of a mass of apparently broken filaments, variously jointed,
some of them moniliform and fragile, and intermixed with pellucid globose ..."
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