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Example sentences for: oblong

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Two independent experiments with 25 mm oblong full-thickness excision wounds (6 mice of each type per experiment), including the striated muscle layer (panniculus carnosus), on the dorsal skin of wild-type and SPARC-null mice indicated that the absence of SPARC impeded healing of skin wounds.
The hair on the back was cut and full-thickness 25 mm oblong or 30 mm circular wounds, including panniculus carnosus, were made.
The so-called diskette is a flat black square sealed envelope of rather tough plastic with a hole in the middle and an oblong slot on each of the flat sides; it is said to be 5¼ inches square, but that is a lie: as the only person who probably ever measured one of these things, I can tell you it is 5 3/16 inches square; that may seem irrelevant, but it is only the beginning of the Great Deception.
Similarly, performance was improved by localizing red blood cells, identified by strong eosin stain band expression, to oblong white objects, as they are typically found in intrasinusoidal space.
If the diskette is placed in the slot of the machine, a motor engages the center of the disk inside and spins it around at a great speed so that portions of it are exposed through its oblong slot, allowing them to be “read” by some device inside the box.