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Having the form or character of a point.

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  • Fore wings acute; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform narrow, brown, bordered, excavated on the outer side; exterior border slightly convex.
  • If it is possible for something to have a property at a point, it does not follow that it is possible that something punctiform should have this property.
  • In all the cases in which comminution had occurred, some laceration of the dura, even if not more than surface damage or a punctiform opening, had resulted.
  • Mr. Cheyne removed fragments both of external and internal tables, one of the latter having made a punctiform opening, not admitting the finest probe, in the dura-mater.
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