semicystic

English edit

Etymology edit

semi- +‎ cystic

Adjective edit

semicystic (not comparable)

(medicine) Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
- 1959, Acta Ophthalmologica: Supplementum - Issues 56-58, page 50:
  Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa.
- 1997, Jane Bates, Practical Gynaecological Ultrasound, page 168:
  Ultrasound shows a multiloculated semi-solid semicystic pelvic mass in a twelve year old girl with low back pain.
- 2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983:
  Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.
- 2014, Zeynel A. Karcioglu, Orbital Tumors: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 386:
  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].
(anatomy) Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
- 2009, Barrie G M Jamieson, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes, page 168:
  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.
- 2010, Kathleen S. Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes:
  This is semicystic spermatogenesis first described by Mattei et al. (1993) in the Ophidion genus, and has rarely been reported in fish.
- 2011, Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment:
  In semicystic spermatogenesis, Sertoli cells form, earlier than in other species, an epithelial lining of the spermatogenic tubules.
- 2014, Michael D. Griswold, Sertoli Cell Biology, page 401:
  In fishes with semicystic spermatogenesis, round spermatids complete spermiogenesis while in a free state in the tubular lumen.