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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Ectocyst :: Ectocyst (n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
Cystoidea :: Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.
Tentaculocyst :: Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..
Endocyst :: Endocyst (n.) The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystidea.
Incysted :: Incysted (a.) See Encysted.
Cystose :: Cystose (a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
Cysticerce :: Cysticerce (n.) Alt. of Cysticercu.
Blastocyst :: Blastocyst (n.) The germinal vesicle.
Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..
Incyst :: Incyst (v. t.) See Encyst.
Cystoid :: Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidea.
Phyllocyst :: Phyllocyst (n.) The cavity of a hydrophyllium.
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina..
Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..
Nematocyst :: Nematocyst (n.) A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso..
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)..
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