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Definition of Spindle-shaped
1. Adjective. Tapering at each end.
Definition of Spindle-shaped
1. Adjective. tapering at each end ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Spindle-shaped
1.
1. Having the shape of a spindle.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spindle-shaped
Literary usage of Spindle-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"At a little distance from this spermatozoal eminence there is an eccentrically
placed spindle-shaped body, composed of fine longitudinal fibres, ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"... it consists of elongated, triangular, or spindle-shaped nucleated cells — in
short, corresponding to connective tissue in various stages of development. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1868)
"... but also in many points within these, where connective tissue with spindle-shaped
and stellated cells is not unfrequently met with. ..."
4. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1892)
"Fusiform, or spindle-shaped, Cataract is also congenital, and is rare. It consists
in an axial opacity extending from pole to pole, ..."
5. Psychiatry: A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Fore-brain Based Upon a by Theodor Meynert (1885)
"24) the first formation is found in the second and third layers; the granules,
in the fourth ; the spindle-shaped cells, in the fifth layer. In Fig. ..."
6. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"ant had not mentioned was the fact that the end of the bone did not atrophy and
become spindle-shaped, as it did after the old- fashioned method, ..."
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