Etymograph

English

loculation

Loculation comes from Latin loculus ‘a small place’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEloculus‘a small place’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1998loculation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEloculus‘a small place’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1998loculation

Earliest quotation: 1998, Burke A. Cunha, Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine: “When no response occurs within 24 hours, loculation should…”

Every English word from Latin loculus

Today it means

noun The localized failure of a region to drain fluids, resulting in an enlarged mass.

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Etymograph / Latin loculus / loculation

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