Definition of biconcave in English:
biconcave
adjectivebʌɪˈkɒnkeɪvbaɪˈkɑŋkeɪv
Concave on both sides.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ribs are straight or slightly biconcave and fade on the ventral surface where they merge into the lateral keel.
- The seventh cervical vertebra is biconcave and is well preserved.
- 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.
- This was not an artifact, as those erythrocytes fixed within the blood vessels retained a normal biconcave shape.
- Under high power unstained red blood cells appear as pale, homogeneous, biconcave discs with no nucleus.
Definition of biconcave in US English:
biconcave
adjectivebīˈkäNGkāvbaɪˈkɑŋkeɪv
Concave on both sides.
Example sentencesExamples
- The seventh cervical vertebra is biconcave and is well preserved.
- This was not an artifact, as those erythrocytes fixed within the blood vessels retained a normal biconcave shape.
- Under high power unstained red blood cells appear as pale, homogeneous, biconcave discs with no nucleus.
- 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.
- Ribs are straight or slightly biconcave and fade on the ventral surface where they merge into the lateral keel.