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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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Using personalized “Explorer Key” cards, visitors can activate digital paleontological tools to probe the morphology and physiology of dinosaurs and other creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 2, 2025

The high efficiency is the result of several years of intensive materials research and studies of the interaction between the molecules in the material, the so-called morphology.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2024

“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.

From Science Magazine Dec. 2, 2024

Genes controlling morphology often respond to several independent enhancers, each determining the expression of the gene in a different body part.

From Science Daily Nov. 22, 2024

She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

Cranial and dental morphologies also confirmed the identity of this skull as the modern species Hippopotamus amphibius.

From Science Daily Nov. 22, 2023

We can select and generate target morphologies by design.

From Scientific American May 31, 2023

Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2022

From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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