Definition of cyst

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

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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..
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..
Cisted :: Cisted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
Cystis :: Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.
Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.
Cist :: Cist (n.) See Cyst.
Cystid :: Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Encysted :: Encysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor..
Phyllocyst :: Phyllocyst (n.) The cavity of a hydrophyllium.
Encystation :: Encystation (n.) Encystment.
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..
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)..
Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..
Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..
Heterocyst :: Heterocyst (n.) A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algae related to nostoc..
Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystina.
Hepatocystic :: Hepatocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts..
Polycystine :: Polycystine (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystina.
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