Literary notes about Loculus (AI summary)
The term loculus appears in literature to evoke a sense of a small, partitioned space—whether it be a tomb, a niche in a shrine, or a scientific structure. In works with religious or funerary themes, loculus often refers to a carefully constructed chamber for housing sacred bodies or relics, as when religious figures uncover or replace items in these sanctified receptacles ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Meanwhile, in scientific and anatomical descriptions, the word denotes anatomical partitions or cells, such as in discussions of multilocular cysts or botanical structures ([5], [6], [7], [8]). This dual usage underscores the term’s flexibility, linking the physical concept of a divided space with its symbolic connotations in ritual and natural contexts.
- These finished, the Abbot and certain with him are clothed in their albs; and, approaching reverently, set about uncovering the Loculus.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle - The body was then lifted to its place in the shrine, and the panels of the loculus refixed.
— from Curiosities of Christian History Prior to the Reformation by James Paterson - St. Elizabeth's LOCULUS was put into its shrine here, by Kaiser Friedrich II.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle - And the Loculus was placed in the Shrine; and the panel it had stood on was put in its place, and the Shrine for the present closed.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle - , multus , many, and loculus , a partition.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir - In a multilocular cyst the largest loculus should be tapped first.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose - Biloc´ular ( bi , two, + loculus , a cell, < locus , a place), two-celled.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine - The pentalocular ovary has numerous ovules in each loculus.
— from Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp
