Oblong

Foreign Body in the Small Intestine

Animals eat the darnedest things, don't they...
This one in particular ate a corn cob.

The corn cob at left can be described as an oblong foreign body. In comparison, a tennis ball would a spherical foreign body and a hockey puck would be a circular foreign body.

The point here is that it is important to describe the shape of a lesion or a mass. While most people would conjure up a mental image of an oblong object were you to simply say "A corn cob", it is best to include a description of the shape whenever possible.

Many lesions are not really aptly described by the classical shapes circular, oblong, spheroid, rectangular (etc.), but when they are, you should use them because they are very descriptive words.