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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Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystina.
Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystidea.
Cyst :: Cyst (n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores..
Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.
Macrocystis :: Macrocystis (n.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels..
Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.
Radiolaria :: Radiolaria (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina..
Cystolith :: Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.
Nematocalyx :: Nematocalyx (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia..
Cystidea :: Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems..
Endocyst :: Endocyst (n.) The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.
Cyst :: Cyst (n.) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc..
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma..
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..
Cystoidean :: Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.
Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..
Cystotome :: Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
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