"atheroid" meaning in English

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          "text": "This genus occurs from the Silurian to the close of the Paleozoic, and is common from the middle Devonian up; it is characterized by its concavo-convex form, and the spines along the hinge-line; aa, Seminula argentea (Shep.), a spire-bearing, atheroid shell, one of the commonest Carbonifersous species; […]",
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          "ref": "1914, Stuart Weller, The Mississippian Brachiopoda of the Mississippi Valley Basin, page 458:",
          "text": "It has been shown by Hyde, however, that these shells are spire-bearing with a brachidium of atheroid type.",
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          "text": "Hands, in this case also, are subject to atrophy of groups of the intrinisc muscles, and exhibit the atheroid movements of the fingers when lying unused, and the \"claw-like\" configuration when about to pick up an object.",
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          "ref": "1974, Proceedings of National Conference on Housing and the Handicapped, page 9:",
          "text": "I couldn't in my wildest imagination imagine severely handicapped, atheroid people packing fish hooks.",
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