scutoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A geometrical solid described as a mix between a frustum and a prismatoid.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Scutoid, a genetic mutation in Drosophila melanogaster
Example Sentences
- "A scutoid can be regarded as a prism that is truncated at one or more vertices, with faces and edges sized such that suitably oriented copies of said scutoid can be arranged to fully pack the space between two planes."
- "As a consequence, epithelial cells adopt a novel shape that we term “scutoid”.[…]Using biophysical arguments, we propose that scutoids make possible the minimization of the tissue energy and stabilize three-dimensional packing."
- "Our energetics analysis reveals that scutoids allow tissues to minimize the packing energy and we propose that such geometrical shape is nature’s solution to epithelial bending."
- "It has been postulated that ‘scutoids’ are part of a continuum of cell shapes and 3D arrangements, together with frusta and prisms"
- "Mapping close to the structural gene for alcohol dehydrogenase (Adh) on chromosome arm 2L of Drosophila melanogaster is the dominant mutation Scutoid (Sco)."
- "Two independent lines of research led to the finding that the dominant Scutoid (Sco) mutation causes a diminshed extracellular electroantennogram response to the odorants ethyl acetate (EtAC) and acetone (AC)."