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Definition of Rhabdoid
1. a rodlike body [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rhabdoid
1. Rod-shaped. Origin: rhabdo-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhabdoid
Literary usage of Rhabdoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"This change in form of the rhabdoid does not take place when the cell is ...
From the behaviour of the rhabdoid it appears that stimulation induces a change ..."
2. Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin (1908)
"240, 1886) has described a remarkable body named by him the " rhabdoid," which
exists within the ... Further reference to the rhabdoid will be found at p. ..."
3. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania, Botanical Laboratory (1897)
"Gardiner's "rhabdoid" has been demonstrated with great clearness by directly
treating surface sections with strong solution of watery eosin. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and to this form the silicious skeleton primarily conforms, though it may
become discoid, rhabdoid, or irregular. The nucleus is usually single, ..."
5. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"... be slightly crushed, all movement of the stalk-cells ceases for a time, and
the spindle-shaped rhabdoid contracts and tends to become spherical. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and to this form the siliceous skeleton primarily conforms, though it may
become discoid, rhabdoid, or irregular. The nucleus is usually single, ..."
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