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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Trichocyst :: Trichocyst (n.) A lasso cell.
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..
Cystoidean :: Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Nematocyst :: Nematocyst (n.) A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso..
Crinoidea :: Crinoidea (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula..
Cystid :: Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.
Cystoid :: Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidea.
Cysticercus :: Cysticercus (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle)..
Comedo :: Comedo (n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt)..
Somatocyst :: Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Zoocyst :: Zoocyst (n.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Monocystic :: Monocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac..
Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Encysted :: Encysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor..
Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
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