semicystic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
adj
Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
Example Sentences
- "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."