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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. curved in two directions (like the letter S);

2. of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine;
[syn: sigmoid, sigmoidal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sigmoid \Sig"moid\, Sigmoidal \Sig*moid"al\, a. [Gr. ???; ??? sigma + e'i^dos form, likeness: cf. F. sigmo["i]de.] Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek [sigmat]. [1913 Webster] Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sigmoid adj 1: curved in two directions (like the letter S) 2: of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine [syn: sigmoid, sigmoidal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "sigmoid": Cynthian, S-shaped, ambagious, anfractuous, bicorn, circuitous, circumlocutory, convolutional, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, flexuose, flexuous, horn-shaped, horned, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, mazy, meandering, meandrous, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, semicircular, semilunar, serpentine, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, two-horned, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy