(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.
Unilocular
Definition:
(a.) Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Histological findings were otherwise uniform and typical: intra-epidermal, unilocular, well-delineated pustules.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(5) After conversion to unilocular adipocytes the amount of mitochondria was halved, their cristae even more reduced, and their appearance was of a WAT-type (UCP-lacking mitochondria, which are coupled under physiological conditions; "C-mitochondria").
(6) Its most important role is in the treatment of small, unilocular, well-placed abscesses.
(7) This distribution explains the curved shape of unilocular pits and the kidney-shaped extensions of multilocular pits.
(8) Percutaneous aspiration of unilocular pancreatic pseudocysts in children provides an attractive alternative to operative treatment in selected cases.
(9) They should be differentiated from a microcystic cystadenoma with unilocular cyst features (2 cases in our series) and especially from pancreatic pseudocyst, particularly in case of a history of trauma and associated chronic pancreatitis (2 cases).
(11) We report five cases of macrocystic serous cystadenoma of the pancreas, two of which were of the unilocular type.
(12) Macroscopically, the resected tumors of both cases showed a unilocular cystic tumor adjacent to a solid tumor.
(13) Unilocular deposition of ethanol into the adenoma proved ineffective, but multilocular injection normalized serum calcium and parathormone concentrations.
(14) Radiographic appearance varied from unilocular to worm-eaten type radiolucencies which were often surrounded by indistinct margins on close examination.
(15) The cyst was unilocular and contained about 100 ml pale yellow mucinous fluid.
(16) Conservative treatment of unilocular ameloblastomas can be expected to result in a recurrence rate of 20%.
(17) At birth all adipocytes were multilocular (contained multiple small lipid droplets), but by day 3 postpartum, many were already differentiated to the unilocular state (one major, central lipid droplet).
(18) Radiographically, most cases revealed a unilocular cystic lesion.
(19) A unique variant of the sebaceous lymphadenoma, so-called unilocular cystic sebaceous lymphadenoma or lymphoepithelial cyst with sebaceous differentiation, occurred in the parotid gland of a 38-year-old man.
(20) Ciliated hepatic foregut cysts (CHFCs) are solitary unilocular cysts in the liver that are histologically similar to bronchogenic cysts.