biconcave
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This batch provided an answer: He had hereditary spherocytosis, a disease in which the red blood cells were tiny spheres rather than the usual biconcave discs.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
They are compact, flexible and shaped like biconcave disks, which helps them slip through narrow capillaries and gives them a high volume-to-surface area ration, so they can hold a lot of hemoglobin and oxygen.
From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019
The viewer observes Mr. Jacobs’s teeming green worlds through a custom-ordered biconcave lens.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2018
Figure 18.6 Shape of Red Blood Cells Erythrocytes are biconcave discs with very shallow centers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
It had also the curious and old-fashioned peculiarity of biconcave vertebræ, like those of fishes and some reptiles.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
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