medusoid
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Polyp forms then transform into the medusoid forms.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The polyps may bud to form more polyps and then transform into the medusoid forms.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
The team now plans to build a medusoid using human heart cells.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2012
Parker’s lab works on creating artificial models of human heart tissues for regenerating organs and testing drugs, and the team built the medusoid as a way of understanding the “fundamental laws of muscular pumps”.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2012
So again, Dr. Strethill Wright remarks, "In the life-history of the Hydroidae any phase, planuloid, polypoid, or medusoid, may be absent."
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
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