Semicystic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections. not-comparable

    "Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa."

  2. 2
    Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen. not-comparable

    "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."

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"Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa."

Etymology

From semi- + cystic.

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