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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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"The whole organism is an integrated, complex morphology, and each of the individual pieces is interrelated to every other part in the body," Berv said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

“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

After careful evaluation of the extensive data, the results are now available: they provide detailed information on changes in the morphology and structure of the material, but also on chemical processes during discharge.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 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

"If you understand which morphologies of the monomers lead to efficient self-assembly, you can deliberately select these shapes and avoid inefficient shapes that are slow to assemble," explains Gartner.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

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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