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