loculatedadj.
/ˈlɒkjᵿleɪtɪd/, U.S. /ˈlɑkjəˌleɪdᵻd/ Chiefly Biology and Medicine.
Divided into, or containing, loculi; = loculate adj.
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loculated1794
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > depression or cavity > composed of or containing
cellulate?a1425
follicular1677
vesiculara1682
cellulated1693
vesiculous1698
folliculate1699
biventrous1702
trilocular1753
unilocular1753
folliculous1757
folliculated1771
bilocular1783
loculated1794
scrobiculate1804
locular?1806
vesiculose1817
plurilocular1819
uniloculate1830
sacculated1835
vesiculigerous1846
vesiculiferous1859
scrobiculated1860
sacculate1870
biloculate1874
bilocellate1880
scrobiculous1889
folliculose1900
physaliphorous1923
physaliferous1954
1794 E. Home in J. Hunter Treat. Blood p. xl The intestinal canal..in others puts on a loculated appearance, as in the whale.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 268/1 The infundibula of Rossignol..are loculated with the ultimate cells.
1880 H. C. Bastian Brain iv. 81 The body of the Pearly Nautilus, contained within the last chamber of its coiled and loculated shell, is [etc.].
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 894 The perityphlitic abscess is..deeply loculated.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxiii. 933 The kidney may come to be represented by a series of loculated cysts with dense fibrous walls.
2007 R. W. Light Pleural Dis. (ed. 5) iii. 17/1 The pressure is the same throughout the entire pleural space if it is not loculated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1794