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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Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystidea.
Cyst :: 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..
Cystolith :: Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.
Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..
Tentaculocyst :: Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Cistic :: Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Urocyst :: Urocyst (n.) The urinary bladder.
Incyst :: Incyst (v. t.) See Encyst.
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..
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..
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..
Sporogenesis :: Sporocyst (n.) Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Polycystine :: Polycystine (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystina.
Ctenocyst :: Ctenocyst (n.) An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory..
Hepatocystic :: Hepatocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts..
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..
Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..
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