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S-shaped

adjective

Shaped in the form of the letter S.

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Etymology of 'S-shaped'

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"S-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books

... (stone in the urethra).—This is less frequent in horses than in cattle and sheep, owing to the larger size of the urethra in the horse and the absence of the S-shaped curve and vermiform appendix. The calculi arrested in the urethra are never formed there, but consist of cystic calculi which have been small enough to pass through the neck of the bladder, but are too large to pass through the whole length of the urethra and escape. ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... following days saw half a dozen of us busily employed in the courtyard in knocking together a long shallow box, in the upper side of which we pierced S-shaped holes like those of the fiddle, with a notched bridge at about one-third of its length for holding four strings, and wooden screws at the other end for stretching them taut. Joe Punchard, good fellow, was the most ardent of the artificers, plying the ...

— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

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