Definition of "nuciform" [nu•ci•form]

• Shaped like a nut. (adjective)

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• "Cutler himself worked hard at anatomy to find something fresh to operate on; and at last he got hold of something he calls the nuciform sac, which he's made quite the fashion."
• "Far earlier than that, George Bernard Shaw in The Doctors 'Dilemma (1906) had entertained knowledgeable audiences by ridiculing the appendectomists who were removing untold numbers of the so-called "nuciform sac" with the justification that the surgery cured or prevented chronic diseases of various sorts, including psychiatric ones, all in accordance with the theory of focal sepsis."
• "The nuciform sac is utter nonsense: theres no such organ."