bulboid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bulb +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

bulboid (not comparable)

(anatomy) Shaped like a bulb.
- 2012, Z. Halata, The Mechanoreceptors of the Mammalian Skin:
  These endings have a bulboid expansion which is invariably invested with a lamella of the Schwann cell and its basal lamina.

Derived terms[edit]

bulboid corpuscle

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