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adj. Tapering at each end; spindle-shaped.

adj. Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end.

adj. Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end

Tapering both ways from the middle: applied in botany to certain roots, as the radish, and in zoölogy to joints, organs, marks, etc., which are broadest in the middle and diminish regularly and rapidly to the ends.

In ichthyology, having the dorsal and ventral contours symmetrical, and approximated to each other from a middle point toward each end, as the mackerel, tunny, and stickle back. Also fusate, fusoid.

adj. tapering at each end

"And that process of identification takes place in a place which we call the fusiform gyrus which as we have seen is damaged in patients with face blindness or prosopognosia ..."

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