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Definition of Spheroids
1. spheroid [n] - See also: spheroid
Medical Definition of Spheroids
1. Spherical, heterogeneous aggregates of proliferating, quiescent, and necrotic cells in culture that retain three-dimensional architecture and tissue-specific functions. They represent an in-vitro model for studies of the biology of both normal and malignant cells. Generally the ability to form spheroids is a characteristic trait of malignant cells derived from solid tumours, though cells from normal tissues can also form spheroids. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spheroids
Literary usage of Spheroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Formation of gaseous spheroids.—It is further assumed that as the rings cooled
they parted at their weakest points and collected into spheroids which were ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Formation of gaseous spheroids.—It is further assumed that as the rings cooled
they parted at their weakest points and collected into spheroids which were ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Formation of gaseous spheroids.—It is further assumed that as the rings cooled
they parted at their weakest points and collected into spheroids which were ..."
4. Primary Object Lessons: For Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties by Norman Allison Calkins (1898)
"Spheroids AND OVOID. Sometimes we find objects that are not quite like a sphere
in shape; they are nearly round like a ball; these are called spheroids. ..."
5. Primary Object Lessons: For Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties by Norman Allison Calkins (1888)
"Spheroids AND OVOID. Sometimes we find objects that are not quite like a sphere
in shape; they are nearly round like a ball; these are called spheroids. ..."
6. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"The figures are (1) the right- angled conoid (paraboloid of revolution), (2) the
obtuse-angled conoid (hyperboloid of revolution), and (3) the spheroids (a) ..."
7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"(3) A solution of the equations for the equilibrium of elastic solids having an
axis of material symmetry, and its application to rotating spheroids. ..."
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