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TUBE-SHAPED STRUCTURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

Synonyms:

tube; tube-shaped structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tube-shaped structure" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tube-shaped structure"):

tubule (a small tube)

salpinx (a tube in the uterus or the ear)

cochlea (the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti)

vas; vessel (a tube in which a body fluid circulates)

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