What's the difference between multilocular and plurilocular?
Multilocular
Definition:
(a.) Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of multilocular renal cyst (MRC) is reported in a hypertensive patient in whom the IVP had disclosed a left renal mass.
(2) Conventional radiogram showed a typical multilocular osteolytic lesion thinning and expanding the cortical bone.
(3) Maxillary myxoma is identified by the appearance of a non-inflammatory and often painless swelling which, in radiological terms, appears to have a zone of multilocular and sometimes unilocular osteolysis.
(4) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
(5) Multilocular renal cyst is a distinct renal tumor whose gross external appearance and absence of normal renal tissue within the septa of loculi distinguish it clearly from other renal cystic lesions.
(6) Multilocular renal cyst is classified into several classes by its style of development.
(7) In the adipose tissues of the mammary stroma in intact mice, fat cells were of multilocular type in the peripheral regions around the main vessel, and of unilocular type in the other part.
(8) The two imaging techniques made it possible to distinguish the tumors into "unilocular" and "multilocular" masses: the former correspond to RCC and PAC, the latter to MCN and RCC.
(9) Correct preoperative diagnosis of multilocular cystic nephroma is difficult.
(10) A case of a Japanese 14-month-old male infant with multilocular renal cyst is presented.
(11) This distribution explains the curved shape of unilocular pits and the kidney-shaped extensions of multilocular pits.
(12) Within the angiomas on the one hand, capillary angiomas are classified into: planotuberous and tuberonodous angiomas of childhood and Kasabach-Merritt syndrome, multilocular hemangiomatosis, progressive multiple angiomas, tardive ("senile") angiomas, eruptive angiomas (granulomata pediculata), papular angioplasia, gemmangioma, and benign juvenile hemangioendothelioma.
(13) Patients 1 and 2 presented during infancy with abdominal masses and hypertension due to bilateral multilocular cysts of the kidney with associated hamartomatous pulmonary cysts; patient 2 also had one area of cellular mesoblastic nephroma.
(14) This report describes the following CT features of abdominal tuberculosis: (1) diffuse lymphadenopathy involving mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymph nodes; (2) low-density lymph nodes with multilocular appearance following intravenous contrast; (3) high-density ascites; (4) mottled low-density masses in the omentum; (5) thickening of the bowel wall adjacent to the mesentery; and (6) hepatic pseudotumors.
(15) The lesion had a multilocular radiographic appearance and caused fracture of a metacarpus of the right front leg.
(16) In multilocular lesions the hemorrhages within different cells could be of different ages.
(17) We report an unusual case of multilocular cystic cavernous hemangioma of the liver.
(18) The growth characteristics of multilocular ameloblastomas and the reaction of the surrounding tissues were studied by means of a histological examination of 31 surgical specimens.
(19) The surgical indication was in 4 instances multilocular of the empyema which inhibited chest tube drainage, imminent loss of function in 1 case and unsuccessful drainage in a case of bronchopleural fistula in 1 instance.
(20) It is shown that among these neoplasms two distinct pathologic entities exist: the cystic nephroblastoma and the benign multilocular cystic nephroma.
Plurilocular
Definition:
(a.) Having several cells or loculi
(a.) having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plurilocular zoosporangium of Ectocarpus parvus Saunders in initiated as a uniseriate branch from a vegetative cell.