Pl. loculi. [L. loculus, dim. of locus.]

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  1.  A small chamber or cell in an ancient tomb for the reception of a body or an urn.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. vi. (1872), I. 87. St. Elizabeth’s loculus was put into its shrine here.

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1883.  L. Oliphant, in Fortn. Rev., July, 137. Another spacious cave … containing chambers and a number of loculi for corpses.

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  2.  Zool., Anat. and Bot. One of a number of small cavities or cells separated from one another by septa.

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1861.  J. R. Greene, Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent., 176. The number of septa in process of formation is often less than the number of loculi.

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1872.  Nicholson, Palæont., 90. The space below the calice is broken up into a number of vertical compartments or loculi.

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1873.  T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 182. A simple cyst consists of a single loculus. A compound or multilocular cyst is one consisting of numerous loculi.

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1880.  Gray, Struct. Bot., 419/1. Loculus, the cell or cavity in an ovary or an anther.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 894. This disposition [in perityphlitic abscesses] to the formation of loculi or pockets.

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