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calyx /ca·lyx/ (ka´liks) pl. ca´lyces a cup-shaped organ or cavity, e.g., one of the recesses of the pelvis of the kidney which enclose the pyramids.calice´al

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Variant of calix.

calyx

[kā′liks] pl. calyces [kal′isēz] calyxes

Etymology: Gk, kalyx, shell

1 a cup-shaped structure within an organ.

2 a renal calyx.

3 the wall of an ovarian follicle after expulsion of the ovum at ovulation.

calyx

calix.

major calyx

a fusion of minor calyxes.

minor calyx

the cup-shaped dilation of the intrarenal ureter; the space into which a single papilla of a multiple-lobed kidney protrudes.

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