Meaning of semicystic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
   not-comparable
2. Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
   not-comparable

Examples

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

“Ultrasound shows a multiloculated semi-solid semicystic pelvic mass in a twelve year old girl with low back pain.”

“Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.”

“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].”

“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.”

“This is semicystic spermatogenesis first described by Mattei et al. (1993) in the Ophidion genus, and has rarely been reported in fish⟳.”

“In semicystic spermatogenesis, Sertoli cells form⟳, earlier than in other species, an epithelial lining of the spermatogenic tubules.”

“In fishes with semicystic spermatogenesis, round spermatids complete⟳ spermiogenesis while in a free state in the tubular lumen.”

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