Definition of cyst

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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..

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Incysted :: Incysted (a.) See Encysted.
Acephalocystic :: Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts..
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)..
Nereocystis :: Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
Cysted :: Cysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst.
Polycystine :: Polycystine (n.) One of the Polycystina.
Ectocyst :: Ectocyst (n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
Sporogenesis :: Sporocyst (n.) Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Cystotome :: Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
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..
Cisted :: Cisted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
Cysticule :: Cysticule (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
Blastocyst :: Blastocyst (n.) The germinal vesicle.
Heterocyst :: Heterocyst (n.) A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algae related to nostoc..
Cyst :: Cyst (n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.
Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.
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..
Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
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..
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