tube-shaped structure

1. 1.

   (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

   Synonymstube

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowertubulesalpinxcochleavessel

   anatomy

Questions about tube-shaped structure

What does tube-shaped structure mean?

tube-shaped structure means "(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure".

What is another word for tube-shaped structure?

Close synonyms include tube. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tube-shaped structure a common word?

tube-shaped structure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.