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semicystic

semicystic adjective: including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.

Adjective

semicystic (not comparable)

  1. Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
    • Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa.1959, Acta Ophthalmologica: Supplementum - Issues 56-58, page 50
    • Ultrasound shows a multiloculated semi-solid semicystic pelvic mass in a twelve year old girl with low back pain.1997, Jane Bates, Practical Gynaecological Ultrasound, page 168
  2. Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
    • Also Callichthyidae (Mattei et al. 1993), some Gobiidae (Mazzoldi et al. 2005) and Scorpaenidae (Muñoz et al. 2002) are characterized by a semicystic mode of spermiogenesis.2009, Barrie G M Jamieson, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes, page 168
    • This is semicystic spermatogenesis first described by Mattei et al. (1993) in the Ophidion genus, and has rarely been reported in fish.2010, Kathleen S. Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes

Examples of semicystic in a sentence

  • Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983:
  • Imaging studies may show a cystic, semicystic, or solid lesion within the diploë of the bone or within the orbital soft tissues, with or without erosion of the adjacent bone [63].2014, Zeynel A. Karcioglu, Orbital Tumors: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 386:
  • In semicystic spermatogenesis, Sertoli cells form, earlier than in other species, an epithelial lining of the spermatogenic tubules.2011, Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment:
  • In fishes with semicystic spermatogenesis, round spermatids complete spermiogenesis while in a free state in the tubular lumen.2014, Michael D. Griswold, Sertoli Cell Biology, page 401:

Origin of semicystic

From semi- + cystic.

Questions about semicystic

What does semicystic mean?
Semicystic means including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
How do you use semicystic in a sentence?
Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.
What part of speech is semicystic?
Semicystic is an adjective.

Words near semicystic in the dictionary

  1. semicylinder
  2. semicylinders
  3. semicylindric
  4. semicylindrical
  5. semicynical
  6. semicystic
  7. semidaily
  8. semidangerous
  9. semidark
  10. semidarkened
  11. semidarkness

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