fusiform
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Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Scientists believe that prosopagnosia is caused by a malfunctioning in a part of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus, which is part of both the occipital lobe and the temporal lobe.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2022
She had a broad bulge that’s called a fusiform aneurysm, and a coil wouldn’t fix the rupture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
The fusiform gyrus contains a site, where graphemes are perceived, abutting the color processing area V4.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
Achenes fusiform or compressed; pappus of 5 or fewer thin nerveless paleæ, alternating with rough bristly awns, or these wanting.—Low southwestern branching annuals, with narrow entire leaves and solitary terminal heads; ray white or purple.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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