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polyfocal

polyfocal adjective: having multiple foci.

Adjective

polyfocal (not comparable)

  1. Having multiple foci
    • Myopathic features with polyfocal regeneration and occasional necrosis-no inflammation and absence of rimmed vacuoles were observed in some fibres.[ 9 10 ] There are other distal myopathies that look like Miyoshi myopathy.2015, M. Mundayadan Shyma et al., “Calf heads on a trophy sign: Miyoshi myopathy”, in Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, volume 6, →DOI

Origin of polyfocal

From poly- + focal.

Questions about polyfocal

What does polyfocal mean?
Polyfocal means having multiple foci.
What part of speech is polyfocal?
Polyfocal is an adjective.

Words near polyfocal in the dictionary

  1. polyfluoroolefins
  2. polyfluorophenyl
  3. polyfluorophenyls
  4. polyfoam
  5. polyfoams
  6. polyfocal
  7. polyfoil
  8. polyfoils
  9. polyfold
  10. polyfolds
  11. polyfollicular

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