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Urocyst :: Urocyst (n.) The urinary bladder.

Cystid :: Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.

Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..

Incyst :: Incyst (v. t.) See Encyst.

Acephalocystic :: Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts..

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.

Cnida :: Cnida (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell..

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..

Ranula :: Ranula (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Steatomatous :: Steatoma (n.) A cyst containing matter like suet.

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.

Cystoidean :: Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..

Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma..

Hypnocyst :: Hypnocyst (n.) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts..

Ovicyst :: Ovicyst (n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

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..

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..

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