Definition of cyst

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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..

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Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
Nereocystis :: Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
Cystoidea :: Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.
Polycystine :: Polycystine (n.) One of the Polycystina.
Myxocystodea :: Myxocystodea (n. pl.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..
Cystolithic :: Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.
Cistic :: Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Cystidean :: Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
Cystitis :: Cystitis (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
Cystoplast :: Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth..
Otocyst :: Otocyst (n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed..
Hepatocystic :: Hepatocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts..
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..
Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Cystis :: Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.
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