tube-shaped structure

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tube-shaped structure - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structuretubeanatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"tubule - a small tubesalpinx - a tube in the uterus or the earcochlea - the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Cortivas, vessel - a tube in which a body fluid circulatesanatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals