cuboidal

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As active transport of nutrients and gas is easier across a single layer of flat epithelial cells than cuboidal cells.

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The thyroid gland is made up of many spherical thyroid follicles, which are lined with a simple cuboidal epithelium.

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Sesamoid bones are small, flat, and irregularly shaped, whereas short bones are cuboidal in shape.

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Short bones, or cuboidal bones, are bones that are the same width and length, giving them a cube-like shape.

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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