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FLATTENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been flattened
Synonyms:
flattened; planate
Classified under:
Similar:
planar; two-dimensional (involving or having two dimensions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb flatten
Context examples:
So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They appear as large, flattened cells with increased endoplasmic reticulum.
(Epithelioid Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Single layer of large flattened cells covering the surface of the cornea.
(Corneal Endothelium, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
One of the flattened membrane-bound disks of the Golgi apparatus.
(Cisterna of the Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)
Depudecin is a fungal metabolite that reverts the rounded phenotype of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts transformed with v-ras and v-src oncogenes to the flattened phenotype of the non-transformed parental cells.
(Depudecin, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by premature fusion of cranial bones, resulting in head shape abnormalities, flattened cheekbones, and wide-set eyes.
(Muenke Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A flexible container for semisolid drug products which is flattened and crimped or sealed at one end and has a reclosable opening at the other.
(Packaging Tube, NCI Thesaurus)
It is formed by flattened cells that have a basement membrane on each side.
(Perineurium, NCI Thesaurus)
An epithelium in which the cells are flattened.
(Murine Squamous Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)
A cell in a hollow cavity of cellular cementum, ranging in shape from round to oval or flattened, and exhibiting numerous protoplasmic processes extending from its free surface.
(Cementocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
