Having a flat circular shape.
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.
6 Diagram of discoid segmentation in the bird's ovum (magnified about ten times).
7 EDTA-exposed platelets lost their normal discoid shape and were larger.
8 Severance of the discoid mammal embryo from the yelk-sac, in transverse section (diagrammatic).
9 In some of the Lemurs (Tarsius) a discoid placenta with decidua is developed.
10 An otherwise asymptomatic knee with an incidentally detected discoid meniscus does not require surgical intervention.
11 Their discoid shape provides a radially symmetric geometry, which simplifies analysis of the flow pattern.
12 There are two lateral, discoid , brown chromatophores, each of which possesses a central amylum granule.
13 Unstimulated blood platelets have a characteristic discoid form supported by a circumferential band of microtubules.
14 I am convinced that it is nothing else than the discoid , flattened gastrula of the birds.
15 The extent of meniscectomy was decided along with tear patterns and the stability of the discoid meniscus.
16 Taxol-treatment protected platelet microtubules from disassembly in the cold and preserved the discoid shape of most platelets.
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