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Definition of Sigmoidal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine.
Definition of Sigmoidal
1. Adjective. (statistics) Characterized by a sigmoid curve or function ¹
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Definition of Sigmoidal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Sigmoidal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sigmoidal
Literary usage of Sigmoidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Averages: A New Approach by Michael Grossman (1983)
"3.9 sigmoidal ARITHMETIC Various arithmetics are generated by functions whose
graphs are growth curves. Those curves include or are related to the logistic ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"A SAFE METHOD OF REMOVING sigmoidal POLYPS AND HIGH RECTAL POLYPS Louis A.
BUIE POLYPS of the anorectal region are usually ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"sigmoidal Curves.—By MARIA M. GORDON, D.Sc. The redistribution of the wave-forms
in the area determines several distinct centres towards which crust-creep ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"... on the former they are in fact sometimes nearly transverse; a certain amount
of sigmoidal curvature is assumed after the middle of the spine, ..."
5. The Precambrian Rocks of the Canton, New York, Quadrangle by James Cook Martin (1916)
"sigmoidal isocline from zone of intense crumpling near Little River crossroads,
about one-sixth natural size. Typical of tight folding to which thin strata ..."
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