Having a flat circular shape.
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Examples for "discoid"
Examples for "discoid"
1The Photos clearly show a man-made discoid craft hovering, tilting and landing.
2The discoid lateral meniscus is the most common abnormal meniscal variant in children.
3Rewarming caused reassembly of the circumferential bundle and recovery of platelet discoid form.
4This symptom complex is almost invariably associated with a discoid meniscus.
5The discoid form of blood platelets is important to their function in hemostasis.
1Are Upper Paleolithic blade cores more productive than Middle Paleolithic discoidal cores?
2The surface potentials of spherical and discoidal rHDL are not affected by the particle apoprotein composition.
3Over 25 years of study have produced two general models of apoA-I structure in discoidal HDL complexes.
4We show that these two different sizes of discoidal HDL particles display different stability and phospholipid-binding activity.
5Shell beads discoidal and cylindrical in form, made chiefly from the columellæ and walls of marine univalves.
1About a dozen shiny disklike objects were "milling around the sky in a rough formation."
2Early studies demonstrated that chilling caused platelets to lose their disklike form and become irregularly convoluted with multiple pseudopods.
3Yet one and all, so distant are they, remain mere disklike points of light before the utmost powers of the modern telescope.
4They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail.
5"I felt some strange, disklike protuberances in my dress suit the other day, but belike they are but poker chips," said Stacy thoughtfully.
1The ships are disc-shaped, with bulges top and bottom in the center.
2Another, a disc-shaped being calledPeytoia, looked almost comically like a pineapple slice.
3The object was disc-shaped, its rim of red stone encircling a golden caduceus.
4They are mostly small and disc-shaped, with occasional, vague trailing ribbons.
5A massive disc-shaped holo flickered to life above the platform like a Frisbee.
1Small disk-shaped hammer-stones with finger pits or depressions usually on both sides.
2The steam, meanwhile, would enter a disk-shaped radiator cooler and condense back into fluid.
3Round, flattened, or disk-shaped quartzite pounders, medium and small sizes.
4The blood consists of cells, or minute disk-shaped corpuscles, floating in a watery fluid, or serum.
5Directly in line with it, and a few degrees above, he saw a silvery, disk-shaped object.
6A flat or disk-shaped polishing stone of quartzite.
7We use X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to show that Ctf4 self-associates in a constitutive disk-shaped trimer.
8All were intently watching two disk-shaped objects.
9The small, disk-shaped kernels come in many colors (usually beige) and cook in about 15 minutes.
10They were, however, not spheres, but disk-shaped fragments of slate, very thin, the sharp corners rounded off by the water.
11The chances were that any disk-shaped missile or new type of circular aircraft would first have been tested in the N.A.C.A.
12That same day, Wright Field admitted it was checking stories of disk-shaped missiles seen recently in the Pacific northwest and in Texas.
13None of the armed forces is conducting secret experiments with disk-shaped flying objects that could be a basis for the reported phenomena.
14Then, with Rebo, Norr, and Phan breaking trail for the animals, the huge disk-shaped wheels cut deep grooves into the virgin snow.
15Also on the sixth the crew of an Air Force B-25 saw a bright, disk-shaped object "low at nine o'clock."
16The tall towers loomed with their strange disk-shaped rooms, and the silver globe looked smaller and duller than Henry had hoped it would.