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
The most abundant formed elements in blood, erythrocytes are red, biconcave disks packed with an oxygen-carrying compound called hemoglobin.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The bodies of the vertebræ, also, are not deeply biconcave, but are flat, or only slightly cupped.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
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