FUSIFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fusiform mean? 

• FUSIFORM (adjective)
  The adjective FUSIFORM has 1 sense:

1. tapering at each end

  Familiarity information: FUSIFORM used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUSIFORM (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tapering at each end

Synonyms:

cigar-shaped; fusiform; spindle-shaped

Similar:

pointed (having a point)

 Context examples 

When participants paid attention to faces, activity increased in the fusiform face area (FFA) of the brain.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

A species of anaerobic, Gram-negative, fusiform rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Fusobacteria.

(Fusobacterium russii, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of anaerobic, Gram negative, fusiform rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Fusobacteria.

(Fusobacterium nucleatum, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of epithelioid, fusiform, polyhedral, and spindle melanocytes without evidence of hemorrhage, necrosis, or high mitotic activity.

(Meningeal Melanocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of numerous small neurons, small pyramidal cells, stellate cells, especially superficially and fusiform cells in deeper part whose axons project into the white substance of the cerebral cortex hemisphere

(Multiform Cell Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

A small fusiform neuroglial cell arranged horizontally in the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex.

(Horizontal Cell of Cajal, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusiform fossa on the lateral sides of the larynx between the inferior and superior vocal cords.

(Laryngeal Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, fusiform, filamentous bacilli assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes.

(Capnocytophaga canimorsus, NCI Thesaurus)

A specialized, fusiform nerve cell with a large nucleus, embedded among the epithelial cells in the mucous membrane of the nose; it carries impulses from the olfactory receptors to the glomeruli in the olfactory bulb.

(Olfactory Receptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)