0 past simple and past participle of flatten --
2 to become level and thinner or to cause something to become level and thinner: --
Areas of interest were cut from the flattened retinas and re-embedded to allow cutting of cross sections.
For horizontal preparations, the retina was removed, bisected, flattened, and 10 -12 mm thick frozen sections were cut.
Radial cuts were made in the retina to allow the retina to be flattened.
The seeds are flattened and seedlings are phaneroepigeal with leafy cotyledons.
The elements differ from those of related taxa in the posteriorly flattened cross section, from the tip to the edge of the basal cone.
The vortices in this regime are non-axisymmetric and flattened by the stratification, their vertical size being roughly equal to half the gap width.
The supraacetabular processes of the ilia are flattened and do not curve ventrally in lateral view.
Most specimens are flattened internal or external moulds, though threedimensional preservation also occurs.
