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Fusiform
Fusiform meaning
Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.
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Fossorial mammals have a fusiform body, thickest at the shoulders and tapering off at the tail and nose.
Fungi that form fusiform skeletal hyphae bound by generative hyphae are said to have sarcodimitic hyphal systems.
Fusiform skeletal hyphae are the second form of skeletal hyphae.
Its shape is fusiform and laterally compressed, with its mouth directed upwards.
Mucinous, clear secretions may collect within these cysts to form either spherical masses or fusiform swellings, rarely larger than 2 to 3 cm in diameter.
Other areas, such as the fusiform gyrus have inputs from higher brain areas and are considered to have top-down influence.