tube-shaped structure

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tube-shaped structure - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure tube anatomical 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 tube salpinx - a tube in the uterus or the ear cochlea - the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti vas, vessel - a tube in which a body fluid circulates anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals