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biconcave

[bahy-kon-keyv, bahy-kon-keyv] / baɪˈkɒn keɪv, ˌbaɪ kɒnˈkeɪv /


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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

A more reptilian character in the Ichthyornis group is the fact that, unlike any modern bird, but like their reptile ancestors, they had biconcave vertebrae.

From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe




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