spheroid in English

noun
1
a spherelike but not perfectly spherical body.
A remarkable feature of oligoamine-condensed DNA is the ability to assume condition-defined morphologies such as spheroids , toroids, and rods.

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1. Technically speaking, the earth is an oblate spheroid; it is slightly flattened at the poles.

2. 27 The cytotoxic effects of NDV ( Losota 4 ) were investigated on multicellular spheroid of human lung adenocarcinoma A 5

3. This is confirmed by experiments with spheroid washed platelets which form irreversible mixed aggregates with Walker 256 carcinoma cells without a stimulus being required.

4. A Biconcave disc — also referred to as a discocyte — is a geometric shape resembling an oblate spheroid with two concavities on the top and on the bottom

5. Ball and socket joints are a type of synovial joint where the spheroid articular surface of one bone sits within a cup-like depression of another bone.

6. Basidiomycetes are usually divided into two subclasses: HoloBasidiomycetes, which has a single-cell basidium called the holobasidium, and PhragmoBasidiomycetes, which has either a four-celled basidium, the so-called phragmobasidium, or a single-cell spheroid, pear-shaped, or elongated dichotomously bifurcate basidium.

7. Blastophore: ( blas'tō-fōr ), An early stage of division of a coccidial schizont in which spheroid or ellipsoid structures are formed with a single peripheral layer of nuclei; merozoites form at the surface of the Blastophore over each nucleus, grow out radially, and separate from the residual body (remnant of the Blastophore); in a

8. Cylindrical projection definition is - a projection (as of a sphere or a spheroid) on the surface of a cylinder; specifically : any of numerous map projections of the terrestrial sphere on the surface of a cylinder that is then unrolled as a plane, the parallels and meridians appearing as straight lines perpendicular to each other if the cylinder is tangent over the sphere at the equator and

9. The role of stress on the growth of a spheroid in vitro had already been shown (G Helminger already cited), but the experiment of Matthew Paszek (last signatory of the article: Valerie Weaver) in 2005 will give a new dimension to this use of mechanical signals in vitro by showing the passage from a normal architecture of a breast acinus - the elementary unit of the mammary gland - to a cancerous architecture under the influence of a single variable, mechanical, here the surface tension caused by an increasing concentration of collagen in the culture medium surrounding the tumor.