semicystic en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + cystic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
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: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:Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.
2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983: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:
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(not-comparable) 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: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: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: