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

This cluster of cuboidal epithelial cells monitors the fluid composition of fluid flowing through the DCT.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The apical cells are squamous, whereas the basal layer contains either columnar or cuboidal cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Now such joints are supposed to be analogous to the partings which separate volcanic and Plutonic rocks into cuboidal and prismatic masses.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir