DOME-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dome-shaped mean? 

• DOME-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective DOME-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. having the shape of a dome

  Familiarity information: DOME-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOME-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the shape of a dome

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

 Context examples 

A rapidly growing, dome-shaped skin tumor that usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, especially around the head and neck.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Dictionary)

A dome-shaped, rapidly growing skin lesion composed of well differentiated squamous cells.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign skin tumor characterized as a small, dome-shaped dermal nodule composed of fibroblasts in a dense collagenous background with storiform organization.

(Circumscribed Storiform Collagenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually presents as a dome-shaped, cystic papular or nodular lesion usually in the face and neck.

(Hidrocystoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents as a dome-shaped papular lesion.

(Fibrofolliculoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A plastic, dome-shaped device, with a catheter attached to the underside used to deliver chemotherapy to the central nervous system.

(Ommaya reservoir, NCI Thesaurus)

A dome-shaped, transparent, avascular tissue covering the front of the eye.

(Cornea, NCI Thesaurus)