semicystic

semi- +‎ cystic

semicystic (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Including both cysts and pronounced solid sections.
   • 1959, Acta Ophthalmologica: Supplementum - Issues 56-58, page 50:

     Its dura periost had been partly destroyed by the tumor, which proved to be macroscopically semicystic and, microscopically, a chromophobe adenmoa.

   • 1997, Jane Bates, Practical Gynaecological Ultrasound, page 168:

     Ultrasound shows a multiloculated semi-solid semicystic pelvic mass in a twelve year old girl with low back pain.

   • 2003, C. J. Mieny, Principles of Surgical Patient, page 983:

     Other germ cell tumours are either solid or semicystic, and often malignant.

   • 2014, Zeynel A. Karcioglu, Orbital Tumors: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 386:

     Imaging studies may show a cystic, semicystic, or solid lesion within the diploë of the bone or within the orbital soft tissues, with or without erosion of the adjacent bone [63].

2. (anatomy) Having spermatoceles that open before spermatogenesis is complete, so that sperm maturation finishes in the lumen.
   • 2009, Barrie G M Jamieson, Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Fishes, page 168:

     Also Callichthyidae (Mattei et al. 1993), some Gobiidae (Mazzoldi et al. 2005) and Scorpaenidae (Muñoz et al. 2002) are characterized by a semicystic mode of spermiogenesis.

   • 2010, Kathleen S. Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes:

     This is semicystic spermatogenesis first described by Mattei et al. (1993) in the Ophidion genus, and has rarely been reported in fish.

   • 2011, Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment:

     In semicystic spermatogenesis, Sertoli cells form, earlier than in other species, an epithelial lining of the spermatogenic tubules.

   • 2014, Michael D. Griswold, Sertoli Cell Biology, page 401:

     In fishes with semicystic spermatogenesis, round spermatids complete spermiogenesis while in a free state in the tubular lumen.