Pl. loculi. [L. loculus, dim. of locus.]
1. A small chamber or cell in an ancient tomb for the reception of a body or an urn.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. vi. (1872), I. 87. St. Elizabeths loculus was put into its shrine here.
1883. L. Oliphant, in Fortn. Rev., July, 137. Another spacious cave containing chambers and a number of loculi for corpses.
2. Zool., Anat. and Bot. One of a number of small cavities or cells separated from one another by septa.
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.
1872. Nicholson, Palæont., 90. The space below the calice is broken up into a number of vertical compartments or loculi.
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.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., 419/1. Loculus, the cell or cavity in an ovary or an anther.
1897. Allbutts Syst. Med., III. 894. This disposition [in perityphlitic abscesses] to the formation of loculi or pockets.