loculationn.
/ˌlɒkjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌlɑkjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ Chiefly Biology and Medicine.
The state or condition of being loculated; development or production of loculi.
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1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 5 It is by the comparison of the perfect fruit with the ovarium, that we are able more easily to recognize the true loculation [Fr. loculation] of fruit, either incomplete or pulpy.
1855 Med. Times & Gaz. 10 Mar. 247/1 Another element observed was, a tolerable quantity of fibres; it showed but a slight appearance of loculation.
1920 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 30 571/2 The exudate may..escape to various and multiple intraperitoneal sites, setting up the typical peritoneal productive reaction which results in loculation of the pseudomucin into cyst-like cavities.
1969 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 280 316/2 The correlation of the site of loculation of the tracer on the scans with the air studies suggested that it was truly accumulating.
2005 R. W. Light in R. B. George et al. Chest Med. (ed. 5) xvii. 419/1 The loculation prevents extension of the pleural infection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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