Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spindle-shaped cell; a fusiform cell.

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Examples

  • “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma of the common foul into its fourth generation,” he wrote.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Experimenting with the spindle-cell sarcoma, Rous injected the tumor in one chicken into another chicken and found that the cancer could be transmitted from one bird to another.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma of the common foul into its fourth generation,” he wrote.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Experimenting with the spindle-cell sarcoma, Rous injected the tumor in one chicken into another chicken and found that the cancer could be transmitted from one bird to another.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Experimenting with the spindle-cell sarcoma, Rous injected the tumor in one chicken into another chicken and found that the cancer could be transmitted from one bird to another.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma of the common foul into its fourth generation,” he wrote.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 174 “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma”: Rous, “A Transmissible Avian Neoplasm.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 174 “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma”: Rous, “A Transmissible Avian Neoplasm.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 174 “I have propagated a spindle-cell sarcoma”: Rous, “A Transmissible Avian Neoplasm.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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