"semicystic" meaning in English

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