diphyllic
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diphyllic (comparative more diphyllic, superlative most diphyllic)
- (chemistry) liking two substances, for example oil and water, surfactant.
- 1989, Studia biophysica - Volumes 132-133, page 28:
- The following example of structure formation in polymer systems is microphase separation in solutions or melts of block-copolymers, аs well as of micelles, lamellae and of other structures in solutions of lipid-like diphyllic molecules.
- (paleontology) Having two phylloid lobes.
- 1933, The Geology of Texas - Issue 3701, Volume 3, page 308:
- The first lateral lobe is diphyllic, having two nearly equal-sized secondary lobes. The second lateral lobe is monophyllic having a single secondary lobe which lies on the side toward the venter.
- 1962, José Idamor Corvalán, Early Mesozoic Biostratigraphy of the Westgate Area, page 152:
- The suture line is characterized by the presence of diphyllic saddles, a feature better developed on LS1 and LS2.
- 1997, Graeme Roy Stevens, The Late Jurassic Ammonite Fauna of New Zealand, page 19:
- However as Dr W.J. Arkell observed in his MS notes the distinction between a diphyllic and tetraphyllic lateral saddle depends on the relative development of the small terminal folioles, which are liable to vary and change with growth.
- (medicine) Containing tissue derived from two different germinal layers.
- 1915, L. G. Gunn, “Carcinoma of the Prostate”, in Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, page 377:
- This led to the view that it is one of two things - viz., either a diphyllic teratoma or a true teratoma.
- 1926, International Surgical Digest - Volumes 1-2, page 311:
- The most usual type is a solid tumor composed of soft, white, necrotic and hæmorrhagic tissue with a few cysts, or tiny lobules of cartilage; a thorough examination is necessary to prove a triphyllic or even a diphyllic structure.
- 1937, George Hilaro Barlow, James P. Babington, Guy's Hospital Reports - Volume 17; Volume 87, page 67:
- Indeed, it is doubtful if this be so much as "diphyllic", since all the epithelia can be regarded as ectodermal if not epidermal: salivary glands associated with sebaceous glands (Fig. 165) and hair follicles (Fig 164) are common enough in the dermoid skin, and stomodaeal and therefore ectodermal in somatic ontogeny;