Fusiform
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Fusiform means having a spindle-like shape that is wide in the middle and tapers at both ends. It may refer to:
- Fusiform, a body shape common to many aquatic animals, characterized by being tapered at both the head and the tail
- One distinguishes: elongate-fusiform and ovate-fusiform.
- Fusiform, a classification of aneurysm
- Fusiform bacteria (spindled rods, that is, fusiform bacilli), such as the fusobacteria
- Fusiform cell, in botany
- Fusiform face area, a part of the human visual system which seems to specialize in facial recognition
- Fusiform gyrus, part of the temporal lobe of the brain
- Fusiform muscle, where the fibres run parallel along the length of the muscle
- Fusiform neuron, a spindle-shaped neuron
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