Definition of cyst

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Cyst (n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.

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Cyst :: Cyst (n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder..
Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystidea.
Nereocystis :: Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
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..
Cystoidean :: Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..
Ectocyst :: Ectocyst (n.) The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
Cystolith :: Cystolith (n.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
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..
Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma..
Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
Myxocystodea :: Myxocystodea (n. pl.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
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..
Polycystidea :: Polycystidea (n. pl.) A division of Gregarinae including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.
Acephalocystic :: Acephalocystic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
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