Definition of cyst

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

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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)..
Measles :: Measles (n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms..
Tentaculocyst :: Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Cnida :: Cnida (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell..
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..
Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation..
Polycystina :: Polycystina (n. pl.) A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state..
Polycystine :: Polycystine (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystina.
Cistic :: Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..
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..
Polycystidea :: Polycystidea (n. pl.) A division of Gregarinae including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.
Cisted :: Cisted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
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..
Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..
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.) Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
Polycystine :: Polycystine (n.) One of the Polycystina.
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