Definition of cyst

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Cyst (n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ..

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Cystolith :: Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..
Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..
Cystoplast :: Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth..
Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.
Cystocarp :: Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores..
Water Tube :: Water tube () One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst..
Lithocyst :: Lithocyst (n.) A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (otoliths). They are found in many Medusae, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs..
Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..
Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystina.
Urocyst :: Urocyst (n.) The urinary bladder.
Encyst :: Encyst (v. t.) To inclose in a cyst.
Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Polycystine :: Polycystine (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystina.
Paralbumin :: Paralbumin (n.) A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen..
Polycystine :: Polycystine (n.) One of the Polycystina.
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