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Meanings of discoid in English
Having a flat circular shape.
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Examples for "discoidal"
Examples for "discoidal"
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Are Upper Paleolithic blade cores more productive than Middle Paleolithic discoidal cores?
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The surface potentials of spherical and discoidal rHDL are not affected by the particle apoprotein composition.
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Over 25 years of study have produced two general models of apoA-I structure in discoidal HDL complexes.
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We show that these two different sizes of discoidal HDL particles display different stability and phospholipid-binding activity.
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Shell beads discoidal and cylindrical in form, made chiefly from the columellæ and walls of marine univalves.
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About a dozen shiny disklike objects were "milling around the sky in a rough formation."
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Early studies demonstrated that chilling caused platelets to lose their disklike form and become irregularly convoluted with multiple pseudopods.
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Yet one and all, so distant are they, remain mere disklike points of light before the utmost powers of the modern telescope.
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They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail.
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"I felt some strange, disklike protuberances in my dress suit the other day, but belike they are but poker chips," said Stacy thoughtfully.
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The ships are disc-shaped, with bulges top and bottom in the center.
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Another, a disc-shaped being calledPeytoia, looked almost comically like a pineapple slice.
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The object was disc-shaped, its rim of red stone encircling a golden caduceus.
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They are mostly small and disc-shaped, with occasional, vague trailing ribbons.
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A massive disc-shaped holo flickered to life above the platform like a Frisbee.
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Small disk-shaped hammer-stones with finger pits or depressions usually on both sides.
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The steam, meanwhile, would enter a disk-shaped radiator cooler and condense back into fluid.
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Round, flattened, or disk-shaped quartzite pounders, medium and small sizes.
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The blood consists of cells, or minute disk-shaped corpuscles, floating in a watery fluid, or serum.
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Directly in line with it, and a few degrees above, he saw a silvery, disk-shaped object.
Usage of discoid in English
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The Photos clearly show a man-made discoid craft hovering, tilting and landing.
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The discoid lateral meniscus is the most common abnormal meniscal variant in children.
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Rewarming caused reassembly of the circumferential bundle and recovery of platelet discoid form.
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This symptom complex is almost invariably associated with a discoid meniscus.
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The discoid form of blood platelets is important to their function in hemostasis.
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Diagram of discoid segmentation in the bird's ovum (magnified about ten times).
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EDTA-exposed platelets lost their normal discoid shape and were larger.
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Severance of the discoid mammal embryo from the yelk-sac, in transverse section (diagrammatic).
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In some of the Lemurs (Tarsius) a discoid placenta with decidua is developed.
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An otherwise asymptomatic knee with an incidentally detected discoid meniscus does not require surgical intervention.
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Their discoid shape provides a radially symmetric geometry, which simplifies analysis of the flow pattern.
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There are two lateral, discoid, brown chromatophores, each of which possesses a central amylum granule.
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Unstimulated blood platelets have a characteristic discoid form supported by a circumferential band of microtubules.
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I am convinced that it is nothing else than the discoid, flattened gastrula of the birds.
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The extent of meniscectomy was decided along with tear patterns and the stability of the discoid meniscus.
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Taxol-treatment protected platelet microtubules from disassembly in the cold and preserved the discoid shape of most platelets.
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