multilocular
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The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Delafield and Prudden report the only instance of multilocular echinococcus seen in this country.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The cysts thus formed may be unilocular or multilocular, and intra-cystic papillary vegetations frequently grow from their walls.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
In the baobab there is a multilocular syncarpous fruit, in which the seeds are immersed in pulp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
In the Pucciniæi the distinctive features of the genera are based upon the more or less complex nature of the pseudospores, which are bilocular in Puccinia, trilocular in Triphragmium, multilocular in Phragmidium, &c.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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