| wedge-shaped fasciculus | The larger lateral subdivision of the posterior funiculus. Synonym: fasciculus cuneatus, Burdach's column, Burdach's fasciculus, Burdach's tract, cuneate funiculus, wedge-shaped fasciculus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wedge-shaped tubercle | tubercle of cuneate nucleus |
| wheel-shaped | 1. Shaped like a wheel. 2. <botany> Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saddle-shaped | Shaped like a saddle. <botany> Specifically: Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form. <geology> Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; said of strata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heart-shaped pelvis | Cordiform pelvis, a pelvis with sacrum projecting forward between the ilia, giving to the brim a heart shape. Synonym: heart-shaped pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heart-shaped uterus | An incomplete uterus bicornis with a wedge-shaped depression at the fundus. Synonym: heart-shaped uterus, uterus cordiformis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salver-shaped | <botany> Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saucer-shaped cataract | A common form of senile cataract often confined to a region just within the posterior capsule. Synonym: saucer-shaped cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook-shaped cataract | Congenital cataract with hook-like figures between the foetal and embryonic nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spindle-shaped | 1. Having the shape of a spindle. 2. <botany> Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; applied chiefly to roots. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spindle-shaped muscle | <anatomy> One that has a fleshy belly, tapering at either extremity. Synonym: musculus fusiformis, spindle-shaped muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sword-shaped | <botany> Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diamond-shaped murmur | A crescendo-decrescendo murmur, from the shape of the frequency intensity curve of the phonocardiogram, often audible as such. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disk-shaped cataract | Congenital cataract in which a central white membrane replaces the nucleus. Synonym: disk-shaped cataract, life-belt cataract, umbilicated cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d-shaped plasma | <radiobiology> A toroidal plasma whose cross-section (poloidal plane) is a D (instead of a circle). A D-shape has a higher beta limit than a circular shape. (09 Oct 1997) |