Definition of Spiroid

1. resembling a spiral [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiroid

spirocyclononane
spirocyclononanes
spirocyclooctane
spirocyclooctanes
spirocyclopentane
spirocyclopentanes
spirocyclopropane
spirocyclopropanes
spiroffite
spirogram
spirograph
spirographs
spirogyra
spirogyras
spirohydantoin
spiroid (current term)
spiroketal
spiroketals
spirolactam
spirolactams
spirometer
spirometers
spirometery
spirometra
spirometre
spirometric
spirometrically
spirometries
spirometry
spironolactone

Literary usage of Spiroid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1869)
"The latter, produced from a fall from a height on to the feet, which have been term spiroid, are more dangerous, not so much from penetration into the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"It is especially in the case of fracture termed spiroid and V-shaped that M. Le Fort, in common with M. Bérenger-Ferand, is a partisan of immediate ..."

3. The Monthly Journal of Medicine (1855)
"... of contraction, elongation, and spiroid torsion. All the kinds of movement occur at the same time. Therefore, while the heart is displaced, ..."

4. Clinical Lectures on Surgery: Delivered at the Hospital of L Charité by Léon Gosselin, Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1878)
"For my part, I reject the name spiroid, because it indicates only the secondary lesion, the fissure which cannot be discovered in the living patient by ..."

5. Report of the United States Entomological Commission by United States Entomological commission (1885)
"Same, the chamber, c, baring a spiroid swell to the inlet, x, ... Same, with spiroid cone chamber, side and top view; tube, a; inlet-side, Cj tit- charge,«. ..."

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