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Definition of Disciform
1. Adjective. Having a round or oval shape like a disc. "A disciform skin lesion"
Definition of Disciform
1. a. Discoid.
Definition of Disciform
1. Adjective. (botany) Having a flat, rounded shape. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disciform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Disciform
1. Disk-shaped. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disciform
Literary usage of Disciform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1909)
"As is well known, disciform keratitis characteristically shows outlying punctate
... Peters,7 however, also on clinical grounds, concluded that disciform ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The disciform apothecia, however, present various shapes, of which tho following
aro the principal :—-(ft) peltate, which are large, rounded, ..."
3. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1845)
"541. of which they consist, as being placed without the lenticular or disciform
haze from which the planets and satellites originated. ..."
4. Elements of Natural History: Adapted to the Present State of the Science by John Stark (1828)
"Shell multilocular, disciform, with contiguous turns, not conspicuous externally;
... Shell disciform, with a central spire, and elongated radiating cells, ..."
5. Notes on Entozoa of Marine Fishes of New England: With Descriptions of by Edwin Linton (1890)
"Head nearly circular, disciform, and joined to the neck or anterior part of the
body at the middle of the posterior side, after the manner of a peltate leaf ..."
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