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..

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

Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.

Blastocyst :: Blastocyst (n.) The germinal vesicle.

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

Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..

Ctenocyst :: Ctenocyst (n.) An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory..

Cyst :: 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..

Cyst :: Cyst (n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder..

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..

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..

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

Cysted :: Cysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst.

Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa..

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

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

Cysticerce :: Cysticerce (n.) Alt. of Cysticercu.

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)..

Cysticule :: Cysticule (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.

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

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..

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

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..

Cystis :: Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.

Cystitis :: Cystitis (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.

Cystocarp :: Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores..

Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Cystoid :: Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidea.

Cystoidea :: Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.

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

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