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How to use biconcave in a sentence

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During thermolysis of blood the erythrocytes transition from biconcave discs to spherocytes.
Under high power unstained red blood cells appear as pale, homogeneous, biconcave discs with no nucleus.
This was not an artifact, as those erythrocytes fixed within the blood vessels retained a normal biconcave shape.
Ribs are straight or slightly biconcave and fade on the ventral surface where they merge into the lateral keel.
In man and in all mammals, erythrocytes are devoid of a nucleus and have the shape of a biconcave lens.
The superior biconcave face of the plate marries perfectly the convexity of  condyles of the femoral part.
They are small biconcave disks without a nucleus and get their red colour from an iron-containing protein called hemoglobin.
The seventh cervical vertebra is biconcave and is well preserved.
The biconcave shape of the cell allows oxygen exchange at a constant rate over the largest possible area.
Genetic defects of the red cell membrane may cause the red cells to assume a spherical rather than a biconcave shape, or alter their configuration to an elliptical form.
The virions were enveloped and measured approximately 300 nm in length and had brick-shaped nucleocapsids with a biconcave core.
Red cells are approximately 7.8 micrometres in diameter and have the form of biconcave disks, a shape that provides a large surface-to-volume ratio.
In the red cells of the mammalians, the lack of nucleus allows more room for hemoglobin and the biconcave shape of these cells raises the surface and cytoplasmic volume ratio.
Slight anisochromasia is normal due to the biconcave shape of erythrocytes, but if excessive, it may indicate iron deficiency.
The Mesozoic Lepidosteidae, again, have, at most, biconcave vertebrae, while the existing Lepidosteus has Salamandroid, opisthocoelous, vertebrae.
Examples from Classical Literature
The end result is an amphicoelous or biconcave centrum in general appearance much like that of the Selachian.
Owing to the beaded structure of the notochord the vertebral bodies take of necessity a biconcave hourglass-shaped form.
The vertebral centra are opisthocoelous or biconcave, and there are numerous precaudal vertebrae.
The vertebrae are solid and may be opisthocoelous, biconcave, or flat.
Biconcave cartilaginous vertebrae are developed, and as is the case in most fishes, constrict the notochord vertebrally.
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