cuboidal
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Sesamoid bones are small, flat, and irregularly shaped, whereas short bones are cuboidal in shape.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Short bones, or cuboidal bones, are bones that are the same width and length, giving them a cube-like shape.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Simple cuboidal epithelial cells are involved in the filtering of blood in the kidney.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The different types of epithelial tissues are characterized by their cellular shapes and arrangements: squamous, cuboidal, or columnar epithelia.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Although it is the general peculiarity of granite to assume no definite shapes, it is nevertheless occasionally subdivided by fissures, so as to assume a cuboidal, and even a columnar, structure.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
