Externo-median nerve: the humeral and discoidal veins together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

(Will.) = 1st medial 2 (Comst.): Odonata; = discoidal areolets, q.v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Anterior intercalary vein: Diptera; = media 2 (Comst.); of Loew = discoidal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Middle apical area: = internal area; q.v. Middle field: = discoidal field; q.v. Middle lobes: of pronotum in Orthoptera; see lobes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Droog held the discoidal nucleus firmly on the anvil, and gauging the distance and point of impact with precision, he struck the small dent he had made, with the bone hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

But, exactly in those respects in which the developing Man differs from the Dog, he resembles the ape, which, like man, has a spheroidal yelk-sac and a discoidal — sometimes partially lobed — placenta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

In the discussions of galactic origin and behavior that grew out of the earlier work on clusters and the local star system, it was suggested that the discoidal galactic system, originating from the combination of independent star clouds and clusters, has long been growing, by assimilating such groups, to its present relatively enormous size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together | Universe Today] Reference

In the discussions of galactic origin and behavior that grew out of the earlier work on clusters and the local star system,1 it was suggested that the discoidal galactic system, originating from the combination of independent star clouds and clusters, has long been growing, by assimilating such groups, to its present relatively enormous size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

Shell beads discoidal and cylindrical in form, made chiefly from the columellæ and walls of marine univalves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference

Shell very small, discoidal, spire flat, whorls rounded, increasing rapidly in size; body whorl enveloping the others, the suture running in a straight line from the apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

If our planetary system were far 'outside' this cluster, the Milky Way would appear to telescopic vision as a ring, and at a still greater distance as a resolvable discoidal nebula.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

But, exactly in those respects in which the developing Man differs from the Dog, he resembles the ape, which, like man, has a spheroidal yelk-sac and a discoidal -- sometimes partially lobed -- placenta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

This position of our solar system, and the form of the whole discoidal stratum, have been inferred from sidereal scales, that is to say, from that method of counting the stars to which I have already alluded, and which is based upon the equidistant subdivision of the telescopic field of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

The Rhizocephala remain astomatous; they lose all their limbs completely, and appear as sausage-like, sack-shaped or discoidal excrescences of their host, filled with ova (Figures 59 and 60); from the point of attachment closed tubes, ramified like roots, sink into the interior of the host, twisting round its intestine, or becoming diffused among the sac-like tubes of its liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

If a drop of blood be drawn by pricking one's finger, and viewed with proper precautions and under a sufficiently high microscopic power, there will be seen, among the innumerable multitude of little, circular, discoidal bodies, or corpuscles, which float in it and give it its colour, a comparatively small number of colourless corpuscles, of somewhat larger size and very irregular shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference

A sufficiently high microscopic power, there will be seen, among the innumerable multitude of little, circular, discoidal bodies, or corpuscles, which float in it and give it its colour, a comparatively small number of colourless corpuscles, of somewhat larger size and very irregular shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

The illustrations of discoidal stones on page 263 are from the "North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

Discoideous: = discoidal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

discoidal field: see discoidal area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

In other respects it is rather discoidal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

A discoidal sandstone slab at floor level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

By the side of nearly every skeleton were one or more articles, as shell masks, engraved shells, shell pins, shell beads, perforated shells, discoidal stones, polished celts, arrow-heads, spearheads, stone gorgets, bone implements, clay vessels, or copper hawkbells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem of the Ohio Mounds] Reference

Here we also find drills, awls, and perforators, slick stones and dressers, pipes of various forms and finish, discoidal stones and net sinkers, butterflys tones and other supposed ceremonial objects, masks or face figures and bird-shaped stones, gorgets, totems, pendants, trinkets, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem of the Ohio Mounds] Reference

If a drop of blood be drawn by pricking one's finger, and viewed with proper precautions, and under a sufficiently high microscopic power, there will be seen, among the innumerable multitude of little, circular, discoidal bodies, or corpuscles, which float in it and give it its colour, a comparatively small number of colourless corpuscles, of somewhat larger size and very irregular shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference