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Restiform

Restiform \Res"ti*form\ (r?s"t?*f?rm), a.[L. restis rope + -form.] (Anat.) Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

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restiform

a. (context anatomy English) Formed like a rope; applied especially to several rope-like bundles or masses of fibres on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

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Usage examples of "restiform".

Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball.

Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus.