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What does morphology mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
    1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
    2. (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
    3. (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
  2. (countable) The form and structure of something.
  3. (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
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In the vertebrate vascular system, shear stress exerted by blood flow has substantial effects on endothelial cell morphology and behavior.
The morphology of its lophodont molars indicates that Karagalax is a tapiromorph, and it is here included in the primitive family Isectolophidae.
For the traditional morphometric analysis, morphology was described by 16 distance measurements.
Changes in floral morphology are normally required to promote either autogamy or allogamy.
Acanthophis slightly modified the typical elapid morphology which allowed it to approach but not achieve viper-like kinematics.
The channel morphology was characterized by alternating riffle, run, and pool segments that averaged 10-15 m in length.

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