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Curved or rounded inward on both sides.

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Usage examples (23)
  • A red blood cell is biconcave in shape.
  • Real red blood cells owe their astonishing agility to their "biconcave" or tyre-like shape.
  • Real red blood cells owe their astonishing agility to their "biconcave" or tyre-like shape, and to get the same kind of synthetic particles, Samir Mitragotri and his...
  • The human blood-corpuscle is a non-nucleated, biconcave disc, having a diameter of about 1/3500 of an inch.
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