bulboid
English
Etymology
bulb + -oid
Adjective
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.
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Derived terms
- bulboid corpuscle