And that process of identification takes place in a place which we call the fusiform gyrus which as we have seen is damaged in patients with face blindness or prosopognosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: April 6, 2003 - April 12, 2003 Archives] Reference

People who develop the condition later in life have usually suffered a stroke or an injury in a brain region important for facial recognition called the fusiform gyrus, says.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

In addition to weeds, Prior and Runion also saw effects on disease and insect pests, such as fusiform rust and the red headed pine sawfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Still, an ancient fish did not ponder its fate and hope to become fusiform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The grain is fusiform, terete and within the nut-like polished hardened glume.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Root fusiform, very long, and regular; the crown level with the surface of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

But we seem to get more recruitment of the fusiform gyrus when we administer oxytocin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ‘Bonding Hormone’ That Might Cure Autism] Reference

Spikes 4 to 10, long, whorled; spikelets narrow fusiform; glume III oblong lanceolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

A puncture with a sharp-edged, pointed knife leaves a fusiform or spindle-shaped wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Grain is small, fusiform, terete and enclosed in the nut-like polished and hardened first glume.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The body protoplasm of a trypanosome is generally fusiform and more or less tapered at the ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the crown, and from, twelve to fourteen inches in depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root very long, fusiform, eighteen to twenty inches in length, and four or five inches in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The roots are fusiform and thin, without any ramifications, and usually from three to five feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Root somewhat fusiform, or of a long, irregular, tankard shape; the crown rising just above the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Bulb four or five inches in diameter, six or seven inches in depth, turbinate, sometimes nearly fusiform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Hollander: In patients with autism, the fusiform gyrus doesn't seem to light up in response to human faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ‘Bonding Hormone’ That Might Cure Autism] Reference

It is called taking the "whelk striæ," the fusiform being called "rice baskets," and the volutes "peck measures.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference

The roots are fusiform, often much elongated, sometimes turbinate, and attain their full size during the first year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root somewhat fusiform, contracted towards the crown, which rises six or eight inches above the surface of the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The outer coating of the ovule here contained barred or spiral fusiform vessels derived from the source just indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Roots eight or nine inches in length, an inch and a half in diameter, somewhat fusiform, and very smooth and symmetrical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root produced entirely below ground, regularly fusiform, fifteen inches long, by about three inches in its largest diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root fusiform, and very slender, fourteen inches in length, by two inches and a half in diameter at the top or broadest part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The roots vary greatly in form; some being round or ovoid, some turbinate, and others fusiform, or long, slender, and tapering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root fusiform, contracted at the crown, which, in the genuine variety, rises six or eight inches above the surface of the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

They are invariably fusiform; and, if well grown, measure four or five inches in diameter, and from eight to ten inches in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Root very long, fusiform, contracted a little towards the crown, but nearly of uniform thickness from the top down half the length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

What we suggest is that maybe what's gone wrong is that the fusiform gyrus and all the visual areas are completely normal in this patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: April 6, 2003 - April 12, 2003 Archives] Reference

Presents as a fusiform swelling with inflammatory d.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Most of those talks were in relation to the fusiform face area.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIT Admissions] Reference

= Spores = elongate, fusiform (in some species brown), plants with a slimy envelope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Macroscopic picture of osteosarcoma: a. Huge fusiform fleshy growth eroding bone cortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The = spores = are black in mass, are elliptical or short fusiform, and measure from 10 -- 12 × 15 -- 18 µ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Kanwisher N, McDermott J, Chun MM (1997) The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference